(Mute)Over the past couple of years Alejandro Ghersi’s production talents have been harnessed by Kanye,Björk and FKA twigs, whose buckling R&B sound he helped to craft. On Mutant, and however – the Caracas-born Londoners moment solo record in just over a year – his sonic experiments roam free. Increasingly unaccountable to any kind of rhythmic framework (Arca’s early output centred around corrupted hip-hop beats),this is music that appears totally cacophonous whether you let your concentration slip even for a moment. normally comprising stabs of industrial sound that eventually assemble into a cranking, Frankenstein’s monster of a refrain, or investing in these songs is hard work; only occasionally finish you feel as whether they’re actually taking you anywhere. One such occasion is the album’s title track: a buffering battlefield interrupted and finally consumed by balmy trance respite – the sound of a mental hell quieted. Distressing,transcendental and beautiful, it’s a journey so remarkable it could excuse a hundred false starts.
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Source: theguardian.com