Arca returns to premiere ‘Prada / Rakata‘, a new music video featuring two new songs from her upcoming album KICK ii, which is out December 3 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Arriving off a literal hot-streak with the release of her rapid-fire track ‘Incendio‘, the reveal of her collaboration with Sia on ‘Born Yesterday‘ and a Latin GRAMMY Award® nomination for “Best Alternative Music Album,” she arrives today with her latest manifestation, the coalescence of KICK via a music visual, a continuation of her work with artist Frederik Heyman, that introduces an ambitious act of musical world-building that reveals Arca’s many identities as an artist in a quantum superstate.
Speaking on the songs, Arca shares:
“’prada’ is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and nonbinary modes of relating the sexual energy of the collective subconscious as a celebration of life; it is a song about defying shame and healing ancestral wounds; about the futurity of desire and love as a moebius strip; about kink as an engine, about sex and love, and above all else about simultaneity of being able to surrender and submit as well as being able to overpower and dominate within a collaboratively created space of consent; to throw glitter in the face of barking demons so as to let them know that love spans fully across breadth of mystery of life and death.”
“r’akata’ is a song about seduction, about wanting to devour the entire world out of a desire to fuck, without shame, free from condemnation, about sex as a life impulse in the face of death; it’s also a wink and nod to the internal heat generated by the hot and humid conditions that birthed latinx music, a reverence to regeton royalty wisin y yandel, tambores venezolanos, the furruco – an instrument i hear as sub bass technology, contemporary venezuelan folklore, life and eroticism birthed near the heat of the equator.”
Last month, Arca announced the details of her highly-anticipated album KICK ii, sharing the album’s first single ‘Born Yesterday‘ featuring Sia, which received glowing reviews from The New York Times, Billboard, Paper Magazine, FADER and more. While KiCk i is a multidimensional self-portrait that held all of Arca’s many identities as an artist in a quantum superstate, KICK ii dives deep into the reggaeto?n and pop that permeated KiCk i. This is Arca at her most commanding, balancing structure and chaos to create her most accessible work yet, without sacrificing any of her uncompromising experimentation.
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Arca – ‘Prada / Rakata’ (Official Video)
Stream / Download: https://arca.ffm.to/
‘Prada / Rakata’ Video Credits:
Concept and scenario: Frederik Heyman and Arca
3D visual creation: Frederik Heyman
Symbolic gestation: Alejandra Ghersi
Avatar creation Arca and mocap: Mimic Productions
Creature, tapir, and mascotte modelling: Andrea Chiampo
Make-Up: Daniel Sallstrom
Hair: Rube?n Ma?rmol
3D assistant Frederik Heyman: Arne De Coster
Gun design mermaid: @stanis.slav
Font processing: Studio M
Produced by: Bounce Rocks & Shaun MacDonald
Arca – KICK ii is out Friday 3 December via XL Recordings
