Blog: Beats Per Minute

Arrange, née Malcom Lacey, garnered a bit of buzz for himself last year on the basis of his fourth release on his Bandcamp and his most fully formed release to date, Plantation . Hailing from Southern Florida, Lacey put forth a refreshing band of downtrodden bedroom pop, reliant as heavily on sequenced beats as on the depressing and strikingly personal lyricism that marks the releases of similar songwriters Perfume Genius and Youth Lagoon. Where Lacey differs from these fellow travelers of the morose, aside from his decidedly lower vocal range, is in his focus on the complexity of the [...]