Arrangements

AlbumSep 09 / 20227 songs, 38m 11s
Post-Punk
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6.4 / 10

Grim, grey, and dour, the Canadian band’s fourth album offers a bleak look at the world and delivers some new textures but lacks some of the musical tension to really create sparks.

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Returning with their second album, Preoccupations have created an intense experience that rallies around the idea of the end of the world with music equally as frantic

It takes a while for Preoccupations to find their new groove.

Though Preoccupations started making Arrangements just before the COVID-19 global pandemic and continued working on it remotely through lockdowns, the challenging conditions didn't dull their edge at all.

7 / 10

Since forming in 2012 under their now-disavowed Viet Cong moniker, Preoccupations have made each subsequent record under an increasingly hea...

7 / 10

Having begun the production on this seven-track LP back in 2019, a lot has happened since then. A pandemic has come and slowly left the world, but one

9 / 10

Arrangements by Preoccupations: as bleak, deep and exhilarating as ever from the stalwart Canadian art-punk group

7 / 10

Dense at times and minimal at others, Preoccupations' 'Arrangements' is a post-punk charge against humanity's crumbling future.

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