Arca "XXXXX" 2025-03-08 It is a watershed moment

It is a watershed moment from an internet-age rise to prominence

The album features guest vocals by ex-Killswitch Engage frontman Howard Jones on the track "Elysium"

but also restores several of the songs to their original versions

AmSteel evolved into one of the most artful and sophisticated punk bands around

Andrew Nolan (Intensive Care

Arca "XXXXX" 2025-03-08 It is a watershed momentThe 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, XXXXX exposes the mainframe. It is a record born from uncertainty, contradiction, instinct, and surrender a becoming