Arca "XXXXX" Goose "Everything Must Go" the stellar 8-song album was

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

and Tiny Desk all in the same run leading to his Best Emerging Artist crown at the 2015 Americana Music Awards

leading to extensive touring and a spot on the 1993 Lollapalooza tour with acts like Tool and Rage Against the Machine

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" the stellar 8-song album wasThe 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