&&&&&

&&&&& is an experimental electronic record with influences of dub, hip-hop, grime, ambient music, trap, and glitch.[5][1][6] Stereogum described the record as "even darker and denser" than Arca's two previous Stretch EPs.[7]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
No Ripcord	8/10[8]
Pitchfork	8.4/10[5]
Tiny Mix Tapes	[1]

&&&&& received critical acclaim from music critics.[9] Tiny Mix Tapes says the mixtape "has the potential to conjure an emotional frenzy that’s alluring to the senses in a way that so much electronic artistry fails to even approach."[1] No Ripcord praised the mixtape for "its density, its intensity, its I'm-lost-in-a-big-city feel, its warm gust of beats blowing while the subway comes squeaking into the station, its darkness, its late-night ecstasy, its rawness, its rawness like raw milk, like drinking raw milk or eating sushi in an inexpensive restaurant somewhere on a street with trash and tweakers, its little motifs that twinkle like stars or Christmas lights, its muscular compactness."[8] In a review of the reissue, Pitchfork said that "there’s something a bit melancholy about listening to &&&&& now—the feeling that instead of freeing us from the past, technology has left us stuck in a loop, endlessly refreshing in search of a better world that never arrives, but that we can still dream of in our art."[10]

The album was eventually sent to Icelandic musician Björk's management, leading to the two artists collaborating on her eighth studio album Vulnicura.[11]

• Arca – production
• Jesse Kanda – artwork

• &&&&& at Discogs