Arca Announces New Album KicK iii, Shares Video for New Song: Watch

Arca has announced another new album, this one called KicK iii, with a video for her new song “Electra Rex.” The new LP is due out December 3 via XL, just like the previously announced KICK ii. The Carlota Guerrero–directed video for “Electra Rex” features Arca and her friends performing in front of the Plaça dels Àngels ​​in Barcelona. Check it out below.

Of the new single, Arca said in a statement:

For me KicK iii is the most incendiary entry in the kick universe. The album is a portal directly into the more manic, violently euphoric and aggressively psychedelic sound palettes in the series. Electra Rex is a new archetype I propose in reference to commonly understood ideas of Freud regarding the oedipal complex—Oedipus Rex kills the father and unknowingly making love to the mother. Electra complex posits the binary opposite: killing the mother and unknowingly making love to the father.   And so I am the first to propose a nonbinary psychosexual narrative to avoid falling into the same generational tragic blind spots. Electra Rex, a merging of both names, an integration of both Oedipus Rex and Electra: Electra Rex it kills both parents and has sex with itself, and chooses to live.

Arca announced KICK ii last month; last week, she shared a video for the tracks “Prada” and “Rakata.” She shared the KicK iii track “Incendio” in September. Arca released KiCk i June 2020.

Check out Pitchfork’s feature “Live From Quarantine, It’s the Arca Show.”

KicK iii:

01 Bruja
02 Incendio
03 Morbo
04 Fiera
05 Skullqueen
06 Electra Rex
07 Ripples
08 Rubberneck
09 Señorita
10 My 2
11 Intimate Flesh
12 Joya