Arca - Mutant (Japanese Edition) (2015)

With his debut album Xen, Arca toned down the aggressive, colorful impulses that had marked the straight-to-Soundcloud mixtape &&&&& and the pair of Stretch EPs. Those were the releases that had fixed eyes on him as a producer, even securing him a spot among Yeezus’ distinguished panel of collaborators. Xen was a beautiful, genderfucked piece of work, but it was decidedly an album — polite and classy despite the grotesque body horror imagery that accompanied its singles. With Mutant, the artist born Alejandro Ghersi pushes back into those rawer edges, bringing Xen’s polish and gymnastics into increasingly feral space. “Mutant is about sensuality and impulsiveness as escape routes out of rigidity,” Arca says in a statement about the album. “Softness as a weapon when the mind attacks itself.”

Tracklist:

01. Alive (3:56)
02. Mutant (7:27)
03. Vanity (4:16)
04. Sinner (3:35)
05. Anger (2:00)
06. Sever (2:13)
07. Beacon (0:48)
08. Snakes (4:50)
09. Else (2:30)
10. Umbilical (2:09)
11. Hymn (1:57)
12. Front Load (2:44)
13. Gratitud (3:44)
14. En (3:04)
15. Siren Interlude (0:43)
16. Extent (2:34)
17. Enveloped (2:22)
18. Faggot (3:10)
19. Soichiro (4:35)
20. Peonies (3:29)
21. Ashland (5:07) (Japanese Bonus Track)