Arca: Kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii review – a wild ride to the dark, daring side of pop
Four new albums of extravagantly warped electronics offer listeners a lot to take in – and her most pop-focused music to date
June 2020
Arca: Kick I review – dissonance meets overground ambitions
Arca: KiCk i review – joyful sonic vision of what pop could be
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: Shygirl + Arca, Mr Bungle, Travis
Staying in for the summer: the 50 best cultural events to experience at home
May 2020
This week's new tracks
Tracks of the week reviewed: Big Thief, Razorlight, Arca
This week we’ve got a lullaby love song, an efficient slab of 2003 retro, and a half-talking half-rapping slice of art pop
April 2020
The music essay
No shape: how tech helped musicians melt the gender binary
In new book Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary, Sasha Geffen explores music’s new gender nonconformists - here’s an extract
August 2018
Everybody get up! The dance crazes changing the world
Drake’s In My Feelings is the latest viral sensation to get people moving. And from black culture to queer identity to feminism, the global reach of pop choreography makes it the perfect way to change cultural perceptions
May 2017
Arca, Deadboy and Mr Mitch: the new wave of beat-makers becoming pop stars
As more and more leftfield producers are stepping up to the mic, it’s making their forward-thinking beats as personal as they are progressive
April 2017
Five of the best… new gigs
Arca and Dream Wife: this week’s best UK rock and pop gigs
The avant-garde producer tours his most personal album yet, while the band that started out fictional play skewered guitar pop for real
The ten best things to do this week
The 10 best things to do this week: Machynlleth festival, Arca and Mindhorn
Britain’s best standups hit the Welsh town, the Venezuelan producer plays London and Julian Barratt stars as a washed-up former TV cop
Arca: Arca review – strange worlds to enjoy, if not fully understand
How cruising, graveyards and swan songs inspired Arca’s new album
March 2017
This week's new tracks
The Blaze: the French rap duo perfectly capture homecoming emotion
Also reviewed this week, Coldplay flop with unspeakably bland EDM while Future Islands bring the post-pint power balladry
January 2016
The playlist
Vince Clarke of Erasure's playlist: Grimes, Arca and more
Ahead of Wonderland’s 30th anniversary celebrations, the Erasure founder shares his love of hypnotic electronica, perfectly precise pop and scary heavy metal synth
December 2015
Music blog
The best albums of 2015 – so far
Collating the best albums released in 2015, updated monthly
November 2015
Listen up
Five albums to try this week: Arca, Tinariwen and more
Stream new albums, from Freddie Gibbs’s dextrous rap to Ringo Deathstarr’s dreamy shoegaze, and let us know what you’ll be playing this week
Arca: Mutant review – digital shape-shifting
The former Björk collaborator is by turns chilling and sexual on his second album
What you should hear this week
Why's Arca's Mutant is the one album you should hear this week – video
The Venezuelan producer’s solo material is innovative and constantly surprising while still packing an emotional punch, says Alexis Petridis
