Arca "XXXXX" Goose "Everything Must Go" chasing your dreams while struggling

chasing your dreams while struggling to stay close with loved ones back home

In the 1970s

I’m gonna do music forever

the stellar 8-song album was initially released as a limited cassette in January 2022 and quickly gained cult status - making a full-on vinyl release quite the necessity

the record peaked at Number 1 in the UK for six weeks and became the fifth highest-selling album of the decade

Arca "XXXXX" Goose "Everything Must Go" chasing your dreams while strugglingThe 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