{"product_id":"arca-xxxxx-vinyl","title":"Pre-Order 13\/11\/26 - Arca: XXXXX (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"full\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5E4hVX3ZEpM?si=z_i0pi0P4kw9BueY\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (13\/11\/26)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArca announces the details of her highly anticipated new studio album, \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e, arriving via XL Recordings. Five years after the twice GRAMMY-nominated \u003cem\u003eKiCk i\u003c\/em\u003e and subsequent \u003cem\u003eKICK\u003c\/em\u003e pentalogy, the Venezuelan-born musician, producer, vocalist, and visual artist returns with her first full-length album since concluding one of the most ambitious chapters in contemporary music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf the \u003cem\u003eKICK\u003c\/em\u003e era expanded Arca's universe outward, \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e turns inward and fractures it apart. Across 16 tracks, the album excavates vastly different emotional landscapes to deliver a body of work that is darker, more aggressive, more experimental, and unwilling to settle into fixed form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInitially conceived as a mixtape before revealing itself as an album, \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e embraces contradiction as a core methodology. In the spirit of her previous mixtapes \u003cem\u003e@@@@@\u003c\/em\u003e (2020) — released as a 62-minute single — and \u003cem\u003e\u0026amp;\u0026amp;\u0026amp;\u0026amp;\u0026amp;\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e thrives on raw exploration and instinct. It arrives as a deliberate interruption of expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It seems playful, also mischievous, to interrupt that autopilot,” says Arca.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album's striking artwork depicts Arca as a biomechanical entity, accompanied by two owls — symbols of protection and the underworld in Greek mythology. Like the music itself, the imagery inhabits a space between worlds where transformation is both terrifying and liberatory. Suspended between posthuman augmentation and raw emotion, \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the mainframe. It is a record born from uncertainty, contradiction, instinct, and surrender — a becoming-machine that continues Arca's lifelong project of redefining what it means to be human both in, and against, the machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Arca, rebirth has never been a metaphor, but a practice. She continues to exist in multiple states simultaneously, collapsing boundaries between human and machine, high and low culture, and experimental noise and pop music. Following her first-ever painting exhibition at London’s ICA earlier this year, \u003cem\u003eXXXXX\u003c\/em\u003e arrives as the latest transmission from a continuously evolving creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the last year, Arca has remained prolific: unveiling the double-sided single \"Puta\" \/ \"Sola\"; remixing tracks for Addison Rae, Robyn, and Hikaru Utada; collaborating with Tokischa on “Chama”; and contributing production to Madonna’s \u003cem\u003eCONFESSIONS II\u003c\/em\u003e. She walked the runways and made appearances at major international fashion weeks, while also composing the original motion picture soundtrack for Stillz’s film, Barrio Triste.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, after years of transformation beneath the surface, her next musical evolution reveals itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo End\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWillow\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEidolon\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeart\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSyncope\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRaver\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCinch\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFxck\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFinisher\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTaconeando\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFuturality\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGrip\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEnraptured\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThrob\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEverything\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSueño\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"XL Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54500448403802,"sku":"XL1662LP","price":25.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1481\/5374\/files\/arca-xxxxx.jpg?v=1785907049","url":"https:\/\/freebirdrecords.com\/products\/arca-xxxxx-vinyl","provider":"Freebird Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}