Arca announces new album 'XXXXX' and ambitious Daniel Sannwald-directed livestream

The Venezuelan musician's new album drops July 31 and is said to be "darker, more aggressive, more experimental"

Arca has announced her new album ‘XXXXX’ alongside an ambitious Daniel Sannwald-directed livestream.

The Venezuelan experimental producer will release her eighth studio album on July 31 via XL Recordings – her first new music since her expansive ‘Kick’ pentalogy ended in 2021.

‘XXXXX’ is said to be “a body of work that is darker, more aggressive, more experimental, and unwilling to settle into fixed form.”

“Suspended between posthuman augmentation and raw emotion, ‘XXXXX’ exposes the mainframe,” a press release for the album reads. “It is a record born from uncertainty, contradiction, instinct, and surrender—a becoming-machine that continues Arca’s lifelong project of redefining what it means to be human both in, and against, the machine”.