Arrangements (album)

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Arrangements
Arrangements Preoccupations.jpg
Studio album by
Preoccupations
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2022
RecordedOctober 2020 – March 2022
Studio
  • Studio Saint Zo
  • Junimo Studio
  • Young Bast North
  • Spiceworld
  • Jewel St Recording
Genre Post-punk
Length38:11
Label
Producer
  • Scott Munro
  • Matthew Flegel
  • Michael Wallace
Preoccupations chronology
New Material
(2018)		Arrangements
(2022)
Singles from Arrangements
  1. "Ricochet"
    Released: June 14, 2022
  2. "Death of Melody"
    Released: July 26, 2022
  3. "Slowly"
    Released: September 8, 2022

Arrangements is the fourth studio album by Canadian post-punk band Preoccupations. The album was released through Flemish Eye in Canada and self released in the rest of the world on September 9, 2022. It is the third album under the name "preoccupations" The album gap of four-and-a-half years was the longest in the band's career.

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Matt Flegel, Mike Wallace, Scott Munro, and Daniel Christiansen

Arrangements track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Fix Bayonets!"4:45
2."Ricochet"5:04
3."Death of Melody"3:53
4."Slowly"5:01
5."Advisor"7:34
6."Recalibrate"5:38
7."Tearing Up the Grass"6:13
Total length:38:11

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Album of the Year73/100 [1]
Metacritic 72/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
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Beats Per Minute 77/100 [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Exclaim! 7/10 [6]
Loud and Quiet 9/10 [7]
Pitchfork 6.4/10 [8]
PopMatters 7/10 [9]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]

Arrangements received positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 72, based on four reviews, indicating "general favorable reviews". [2] Writing for Beats Per Minute , John Amen gave the album a rating of 77% and commented that "...what distinguishes Preoccupations from many of their postpunk peers is not so much a distinct take on the usual sources – Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure, et al – but a more subtle and career-long affinity with such bands as Sonic Youth, Swans, and Sunn O))). That is, Preoccupations' brand of postpunk is denser, grittier, and more panoramic than the versions produced by many of their contemporaries." [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Preoccupations - Arrangements - Reviews". Album of the Year. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Arrangements by Preoccupations Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  3. ↑ Phares, Heather. Review of Arrangements at AllMusic. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  4. ↑ Amen, John (September 13, 2022). "Album Review: Preoccupations – Arrangements". Beats Per Minute . Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  5. ↑ Taylor, Chris (September 9, 2022). "Preoccupations - Arrangements review". DIY . Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  6. ↑ Kohner, Kyle (September 7, 2022). "Preoccupations Are as Bleak as Ever — and the World Has Finally Caught Up on 'Arrangements'". Exclaim! . Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  7. ↑ Davidson, Robert (September 6, 2022). "Preoccupations - Arrangements". Loud and Quiet . Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  8. ↑ Cohen, Ian (September 14, 2022). "Preoccupations: Arrangements Album Review". Pitchfork . Condé Nast . Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  9. ↑ Spiess, Andrew (September 9, 2022). "'Arrangements' Carries an Even Darker Cynical Tint for Preoccupations". PopMatters . Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  10. ↑ O'Connell, Sharon (2022). Bonner, Michael (ed.). "Preoccupations Arrangements: Artful reconstructuion for Calgary quartet's fourth" (Print). Uncut . No. 305. London: BandLab Technologies (published 8 September 2022). p. 33. ISSN   1368-0722.
  11. ↑ Amen, John (2022-09-13). "Album Review: Preoccupations – Arrangements | Beats Per Minute". beatsperminute.com. Retrieved 2022-09-16.
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