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Arca<\/a> has announced her new album \u2018XXXXX\u2019 alongside an ambitious Daniel Sannwald-directed livestream.<\/p>\n The Venezuelan experimental producer will release her eighth studio album on July 31 via XL Recordings \u2013 her first new music since her expansive \u2018Kick\u2019 pentalogy ended in 2021.<\/p>\n \u2018XXXXX\u2019 is said to be \u201ca body of work that is darker, more aggressive, more experimental, and unwilling to settle into fixed form.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSuspended between posthuman augmentation and raw emotion, \u2018XXXXX\u2019 exposes the mainframe,\u201d a press release for the album reads. \u201cIt is a record born from uncertainty, contradiction, instinct, and surrender\u2014a becoming-machine that continues Arca\u2019s lifelong project of redefining what it means to be human both in, and against, the machine\u201d.<\/p>\n Alongside her new album, Arca will also premiere a one-of-a-kid livestream on July 23. Directed by Daniel Sannwald (Rosal\u00eda<\/a>, SZA<\/a>, Rihanna<\/a>), the livestream will commence at 9:30 PM CEST here and \u201cblurs the boundaries between IRL, streaming, durational performance, and hallucination\u201d.<\/p>\n Take a look at the album\u2019s tracklisting below and pre-save the album here.<\/a><\/p>\n \u2018No End\u2019 We reviewed the first of her \u2018Kick\u2019 albums in 2020, where we gave it four stars.\u00a0<\/a> Most recently, Arca appeared in Madonna\u2019s \u2018Confessions II\u2019 film<\/a>, where she appeared alongside famous faces like Julia Garner,\u00a0Shygirl<\/a>, Gwendoline Christie,\u00a0Richard E. Grant,\u00a0Honey Dijon<\/a>, Odessa\u00a0A\u2019zion, Madonna\u2019s daughter Lourdes Leon and Chelsea players Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Bj\u00f6rk is set to host a solar eclipse day rave on August 12 in Iceland<\/a>, with performances from Arca, Sideproject and Ronja J\u00f3hannsd\u00f3ttir. Visit here for tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe tracklist for Arca\u2019s \u2018XXXXX\u2019 is:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u2018Willow\u2019
\u2018Eidolon\u2019
\u2018Heart\u2019
\u2018Syncope\u2019
\u2018Raver\u2019
\u2018Cinch\u2019
\u2018Fxck\u2019
\u2018Finisher\u2019
\u2018Taconeando\u2019
\u2018Futurality\u2019
\u2018Grip\u2019
\u2018Enraptured\u2019
\u2018Throb\u2019
\u2018Everything\u2019
\u2018Sue\u00f1o\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cConsidering the range of genres incorporated in the album, it\u2019s stunning that it never veers fully towards only one,\u201d we said of the record. \u201cInstead, \u2018KiCk i\u2019 incorporates pop, experimental, noise, electronica and psychedelia into one project. Amid a highly acclaimed career, Arca\u2019s latest album presents a new high-water mark.\u201d<\/p>\n