Xen (Vinyl LP) Postcards

Xen (Vinyl LP) PostcardsArca sparks a deeply emotional response through decoded combinations of electronic sound. Technically, it brings to mind Brian Eno's work with Microsoft in the early 90s, only instead of creating a six second corporate jingle designed to be "optimistic, sentimental and inspirational" etc., Arca spins an impassioned tapestry through a series of personalities that weave and scratch their way through the mix. The trick is being able to achieve this both

Forever Changes belongs high on any halfway serious list of the greatest pop albums of the '60s

He worked as a writer and arranger from the 1960s to 1980s

dancefloor shakers

placing himself and the musicians in the round

recorded at a time of mass demonstrations against the government and just after folk hero Ken Livingstone had been elected mayor

but on this new record they were fine tuned and trimmed back before heading into the studio

cut finely with an almost Lo-Fi production aesthetic with a broken beat backbone and an electro edge

Other album highlights include the title track

Spitting flames behind a white wall of silence

The band has been through a lot in the last three years

Since the percussion tone is also not routed through the vibrato circuit

receives its first ever 180 gram vinyl reissue