Arca has released a new video for two songs off her upcoming album, KiCK ii.
Featuring "Prada" and "Rakata," the Frederick Heyman-directed clip is meant to combine a number of Arca's identities into one "quantum superstate," according to the press release. Read a full quote from Arca below.
KiCK ii, which also includes the previously released single, "Born Yesterday" featuring Sia, is due out this December via XL Recordings, with other guest spots from Cardopusher, Clark, Boys Noize and Mica Levi.
Watch the video, and read Arca's explanation.
"'Prada' is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and nonbinary modes of relating the sexual energy of the collective subconscious as a celebration of life; it is a song about defying shame and healing ancestral wounds; about the futurity of desire and love as a Moebius strip; about kink as an engine, about sex and love, and above all else about simultaneity of being able to surrender and submit as well as being able to overpower and dominate within a collaboratively created space of consent; to throw glitter in the face of barking demons so as to let them know that love spans fully across breadth of mystery of life and death.
'Rakata' is a song about seduction, about wanting to devour the entire world out of a desire to fuck, without shame, free from condemnation, about sex as a life impulse in the face of death; it's also a wink and nod to the internal heat generated by the hot and humid conditions that birthed Latinx music, a reverence to reggaeton royalty Wisin & Yandel, tambores Venezolanos, the furruco, an instrument I hear as sub-bass technology, contemporary Venezuelan folklore, life and eroticism birthed near the heat of the equator."