Bleep

We thought Arca had already taken the world by storm with the previous five albums of her Kick Cycle, but the next few years of the 2020s proved her meteoric rise would go far higher. ‘Puta’ and ‘Sola’ come at a time when all eyes are on her as she commands the worlds of pop, fashion, and visual art, while remaining elegantly and defiantly herself: “I am that bitch” she says on ‘Puta’, unapologetic and fully spitting in her rap game as heaving bass moves in jagged directions, and a reggaeton beat is fragmented into a throbbing fast paced pulse. ‘Sola’ is the zen to the ferocity of ‘puta’, a ticking Latin dance pop ballad with harpsichord textured synth chords and the soft breeze of Arca’s vocals.