&&&&&
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&&&&& is a mixtape by Venezuelan electronic producer Arca. It was released on 23 July 2013 through Hippos in Tanks and SoundCloud. Even though 14 tracks are listed, the entire mixtape is in sequence as a single track.[2] A vinyl release of the mixtape with an alternative album cover was released on January 2014 and was limited to 500 copies.[3]
Composition
&&&&& is an experimental electronic record with influences of dub, hip-hop, grime and ambient music.[4][5] Stereogum described the record as "even darker and denser" than Arca's two previous Stretch EPs.[6]
Citical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Tiny Mix Tapes |   [1] |
| No Ripcord | 8/10[7] |
&&&&& received positive reviews from music critics. Tiny Mix Tapes says the mixtape "has the potential to conjure an emotional frenzy that’s alluring to the senses in a way that so much electronic artistry fails to even approach." No Ripcord praised the mixtape for "its density, its intensity, its I'm-lost-in-a-big-city feel, its warm gust of beats blowing while the subway comes squeaking into the station, its darkness, its late-night ecstasy, its rawness, its rawness like raw milk, like drinking raw milk or eating sushi in an inexpensive restaurant somewhere on a street with trash and tweakers, its little motifs that twinkle like stars or Christmas lights, its muscular compactness."
Track listing
All tracks are written by Arca.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Knot" | 2:13 |
| 2. | "Harness" | 1:53 |
| 3. | "Fossil" | 1:50 |
| 4. | "Feminine" | 0:35 |
| 5. | "Anaesthetic" | 2:09 |
| 6. | "Coin" | 2:15 |
| 7. | "Century" | 1:15 |
| 8. | "Mother" | 1:15 |
| 9. | "Hallucinogen" | 2:06 |
| 10. | "Pinch" | 1:37 |
| 11. | "DM True" | 2:19 |
| 12. | "Waste" | 2:34 |
| 13. | "Pure Anna" | 0:47 |
| 14. | "Obelsik" | 2:47 |
| Total length: | 25:34 | |
Personnel
- Arca - production
- Jesse Kanda - artwork
References
- ^ a b "Arca - &&&&&". Tiny Mix Tapes.
- ^ "Download Arca's "&&&&&"". Complex. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Arca (4) - &&&&&". Discogs. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Music Review: Arca - &&&&&". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
{{cite news}}: no-break space character in|title=at position 19 (help) - ^ Cliff, Aimee. "Arca - &&&&& [mixtape]". www.dummymag.com. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ "Download Arca &&&&&". Stereogum. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
- ^ Iovino, Michael (2 September 2016). "Arca: &&&&& - Music Review - No Ripcord". No Ripcord.