Mutant
by Arca

Mutant by Arca
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-11-20
Overall rank: 7,770th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 65 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (157th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,513th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,770th)

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Arca bestography

Mutant is ranked 5th best out of 17 albums by Arca on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Arca is Arca which is ranked number 2675 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 593.

Arca album bestography « Higher ranked (7,511th)
Kick III
This album (7,770th)
Mutant
Lower ranked (14,310th) »
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Mutant track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Mutant rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,770th | 2010s rank: 1,513th | 2015 rank: 157th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 65 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 11% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.7/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.


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From Repo 04/07/2019 23:27 in What album are you listening to right now?
What album are you listening to right now?
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From Komorebi-D 02/28/2017 07:44 in What album are you listening to right now?
Arca revision part II. I recollect this one being my preferred out of the 3 and only at the second track in I can see why.
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From Revolution909 02/17/2016 22:23 in Recommendations Thread
Hey everybody. Here's a really vague, sweeping request for recommendations: I'm looking for albums which are jut all over, scattered, that seem to just change pace and tone and style etc at the drop of a dime and a lot through out the album. It could be any style at all - as long as it just seems…
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Mutant comments

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Personally, I think it's a bit long, but nonetheless a very interesting record from Arca.
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"Mutant" is a weird and melancholic creature that could have done with trimming away a few tracks, but it's still an impressive piece from Arca who will go on to even greater things with his self-titled record
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85/100
I love the perplexing sonic madness Arca brings to his solo work. One moment you're succumbing to a bearable tension and then its a full-on assault or an entirely new & frightening direction.
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85/100
Prepare to be pummelled by this blissful bullyboy of an album.
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