{"id":32422,"date":"2014-11-24T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=32422"},"modified":"2014-11-24T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:55:26","slug":"arca-xen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2014\/11\/24\/arca-xen\/","title":{"rendered":"Arca: Xen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abrasive and beautiful, quirky and haunting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Arca is the stage name of 24-year old Venezuelan producer Alejandro Ghersi. Although he has stayed out of the limelight for much of his career, his work has gained a great deal of popularity following his production on recent albums by FKA Twigs and Kanye West.<\/p>\n<p>His debut album cements his place as one of the most exciting electronic producers in the business right now. <i>Xen<\/i> is alternately abrasive and beautiful, both quirky and haunting.<\/p>\n<p>Opener, \u201cNow You Know,\u201d is dark and dramatic, but it is followed by the serene piano track \u201cHeld Apart.\u201d The pattern of sonic assault and reprieve repeats itself throughout.<\/p>\n<p>This album deserves to be listened to from start to finish, but a few tracks that stand out are the airy \u201cSisters,\u201d and \u201cSad Bitch,\u201d which sounds like a piano sonata fed through endless layers of synth and distortion.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended if you like: FKA Twigs, Flying Lotus, Gesaffelstein, Yeezus<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Tracks: 4, 5, 1, 9,<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Andy Miller on November 10th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abrasive and beautiful, quirky and haunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":32429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,3230],"tags":[2455,2523,2524],"class_list":["post-32422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hip-hopelectronic-rotation","category-new-music-rotation","tag-andy-miller","tag-arca","tag-xen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2012_10_17_PublicAssembly_Panache_14_DJ_LaurenNaefe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}