Arrange - Their Bodies In A Fog (Album Review)

Arrange's Malcom Lacey is basically a master at his craft. His experimental music has ambient tendencies, lush electronic elements, and sparse and spacey feelings at times. All that is topped with vocals that weave in and out that sometimes come to the forefront and sometimes lay buried in the mix and become more of another instrument in the song.

The mission seems to be continued perfection with Arrange's third album Their Bodies Buried In A Fog. Even though, in my opinion, he is a master craftsman he is still seeking continued improvement. All of Lacey's albums have sounded somewhat similar, in terms of style, but all have continued to build and improve the sound he's going for with most of his music. Their Bodies... continues this fine tuning. Some of the electronic elements and beats on this album are so good and captivating that it's easy to find multiple different things of interest with repeated listens.

"Movement" is a song that I think really sticks out. The vocals are a little more prominent on this one. I really like the music on this track as well. The beat is really interesting and has a slow paced but also driving vibe I really like. It's followed by "Dark Rooms" which has an intro leading into the song that sounds like an electronic stream of water building into this brooding track where the vocal effects sound like Lacey could actually be singing underwater. The outro to the song, honestly, sounds like water crashing onto rocks at the bottom of a waterfall.

While Their Bodies Buried In A Fog might not catch you off guard in the same way Lacey's debut album Plantation did, it continues the trend of fantastically well done music. I'm starting to think this guy can't write a bad song. Every time I think he won't be able to top his last release he's able to add that little extra something or improve on some of the elements found within his songs to continually impress me. This is a really good album. You should definitely check it out.