I’m lead to believe this chap knows Björk.

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Alfred Soto: Then there are those who say Björk just writes lyrics.
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Thomas Inskeep: This sounds for all the world like Aphex Twin remixing/replaying Kraftwerk’s “Boing Boom Tschak,” only icier. Except for the parts that sound like it’s going through the shredder. Not so much a song as a sketch of a song, like a line drawing done in pencil. I admire this more than I like, or even actively enjoy, it.
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Micha Cavaseno: In the past few years, the ascension of Alejandro Ghersi has been one of the most noteworthy in the once thought to be dead and buried IDM community.  He’s had a few profile-raising collabs, y’know… a Mykki Blanco here, a FKA Twigs there, Kanye and Björk deciding they like you enough to make you an integral part of their albums, and before you can say voila, Arca has become someone his generation could cite as their own Aphex Twin. “EN” is the ‘single’ from the Mutant album, and like any good IDM joint, it’s meditative, cerebral and honestly a little bit boring. I mean, lets face it: a simple, plaintive piano melody and edgy cyber-batwing clamor married to a synth swoon isn’t the most UNIQUE experience in 2015. But nonetheless it does sound like Arca, which given the disparity of who and what he crafts music for, is a very impressive feat.
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Iain Mew: “EN” is jarring and difficult to listen to, but a sort of low level background difficult which is somehow even more frustrating than if it was more confrontational. I find myself resenting not only every grunt and scrape but every bit of prettiness that promises something else but never forms together for it. I don’t think it quite maps, but the feeling that results — a kind of worn out, forced detachment — makes me think of playing old video games which are difficult mostly through unresponsiveness. Or rather, it makes me think of the particular mood that sets in after repeat attempts when I’m only doing worse and I’ve had enough.
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Jonathan Bogart: I could see this working as part of a longer suite — maybe as a selection from of what those of us now entering our dotage used to refer to as an album — but as a standalone piece it’s barely there, just a bunch of micronoises splatters together until they aren’t any more.
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Edward Okulicz: The third minute takes you into a place that feels like an unsettling dream, not quite a nightmare, but something that could turn into one. Then it peters out rather than jolting you awake. Just as I was primed for a big scare, too!
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Brad Shoup: What a way to go.
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Katherine St Asaph: A side effect of my year-end list and how I’ve memorized it: I imagine “EN” as the aftermath of “Accelerate” — except the car’s a spaceship, it used up all its fuel there, and now it’s drifting through a debris field. A wide shot, probably.
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