Alejandro Ghersi, or Arca as he’s become more widely known, is the producer behind some of the hardest hitting tracks off Kanye’s 2013 Yeezus album, namely “Hold my Liquor”, “Blood on the Leaves” and “Send it Up.”
This self-titled full-length will be the Venezuela-born, London-based artist’s first on XL Recordings, following the release of his two: 2014’s Xen and 2015’s Mutant.
In a press release, Arca discussed the record, saying “Here’s my voice and all my guts: feel free to judge it. It’s like a bullfight: you’re watching emotional violence for pleasure. So this is a character who, almost as a mockery of the transaction, goes uncomfortably deep, into self-mutilation. ‘You want gore? Here’s gore’”.