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10 Dekmantel debuts that are simply unmissable this year
From Eclair Fifi to Masters At Work
Arca
When we saw Arca perform at the Roundhouse in London, we were left blissfully speechless and emotionally awakened. The Venezuelan artist's self-titled album dropped at the start of the year and we've had it on repeat ever since. A mix of haunting, tender and harrowing, the album seamlessly manages to portray feelings of angst, anger and solitude set against representations of happiness and warmth. It's a LP that both challenges and transports the listener, as is the case with the majority of his output. He makes a Dekmantel debut alongside frequent visual collaborator Jesse Kanda, the A/V artist who has help create the tormented aesthetic Arca has used for the majority of his career. It will be weird, it will be unpredicatable and it will no doubt be a talking point of the whole festival.
