The prolific James Ferraro later released lots of alien ambient

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The prolific James Ferraro later released lots of alien ambient music, for example Clear (Holy Mountain, 2008), Discovery (Holy Mountain, 2008), Multitopia (Holy Mountain, 2008), On Air (Underwater Peoples, 2009), Last American Hero (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2010). However, he soon turned to crafting bizarre parodies of fashionable styles of past decades on Far Side Virtual (Hippos In Tanks, 2011) and Night Dolls With Hairspray (Olde English Spelling Bee, 2011), like Frank Zappa at his most irreverent. ,/10

Blunt formed Babyfather with some DJs and released a concept about a pirate radio DJ, BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow (2016), an album of "protest music" that is a series of political raps/rants over old-fashioned downtempo dance-music; basically, one long pretentious tedious substandard Pop Group and Massive Attack act, and sometimes a parody of hip hop (Greezebloc). There are cute moments like the reggae singalong Meditation feat Arca and the Middle Eastern disco-music N.A.Z, and, best of all, a miniature electronic polka, Platinum Cookies, but hardly anything that any kid in a garage cannot compose. In more inspired hands the grave tone of Deep, Shook, Killuminati (with disorienting metallic and telephone sounds) and especially Motivation (its noisy soundscape) could trigger the birth of noir hip-hop music. 4/10

R Plus Seven (Warp, 2013) is too amateurish to be taken seriously. The brooding requiem-like Boring Angel is mildly entertaining (but hardly revolutionary) and most of the rest is either trivial (like the ambient and pop fusion of Problem Areas, or the noisy drone of Chrome Country) or chaotic (Zebra). 5/10

[...] The limit of this highly creative music, again, is that it is so fragmented (even within each song). There is a chronic inability to reach closure, but then, maybe, this is precisely Arca's point. 7/10