Arca’s ‘XXXXX’ is an ecstatic return to mixtape-era form
Fans of @@@@@ and &&&&& will be happy. Saint aka Cassandra Antoniades. Arca’s first album in five years is both a pivot and return. In 2020, she expanded her world building into epic, multi-part terrain with her KICK pentalogy. Those albums unfurled with lullaby-like compositional works, strobe-lit Reggaeton, noise music, ambient, and more. The series…