A drummer, producer, and avant-garde pop artist, Arhkota is an artist who is impossible to pin down. His music, travelling through distant electronic realms, captures an ever-shifting quality, a defiant spark of originality that has earned him immense respect across the alternative music scene. His latest offering, the single ‘Plastic Saints’, set for release on October 3rd, captures this enigmatic spirit with a cinematic and provocative flair that feels both hauntingly familiar and entirely new.
With his new single, Arhkota has delivered an immersive and wilfully immersive experience, taking lead from an industrial-tinged chaos. The track intertwines bold references to prayer and puppets with hard-hitting fragments and ethereal, breathy vocals. The result is a blend of the poignant and the metaphorical, a rhythmic exploration that leaves you simultaneously enchanted and unsettled. The song’s soundscape is a disorienting journey through spiralling synths, faint industrial rhythms, and a post-punk vocal tone that slowly gives way to something more melancholic.
For a brief, vital moment, the track flirts with stark, dissonant alt-rock vibes, hooking into the industrial and deeply textured undercurrent that pushes the song forward. From that mooring, Arhkota quickly steers the composition into his own unique current, letting this hypnotic ocean of movement find a fragile balance between optimism and uncertainty.
The track, which Arhkota wrote, performed, and mixed himself, is a testament to his musical maturity and avant-garde sensibilities. Mastered by Josiah Mazzaschi, ‘Plastic Saints’ is a complex tapestry of sound that showcases the artist's ability to craft a truly original world.
As Arhkota continues to branch out artistically, he proves that his intriguing creativity is a force to be reckoned with. The song is a challenging yet rewarding listen, a testament to an artist who refuses to be classified under a single genre, instead creating a universe all his own.
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