An Arrangement

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In our assessment of FLWR’s debut album FWLR, we wrote “They would eventually escape from their droll existence on the wings of their efforts, but success, while bringing much green, wilted their anger until home seemed like paradise.” Three years later the band was still homesick. Touring was still the best way to make money as the digitization of music once again was signaling the death of vinyl. Burnt out, their specialized stasis suits unable to function, they needed a break in the wall. An Arrangement was both a necessity and a bubble in which they could isolate themselves. Fueled by three years away from the studio, they had amassed a wealth of new material but did not have the freedom to assemble it. Time was ticking, though. Studio time is expensive, and if you are not touring, dear Audionauts, you are not earning. Beauty had mostly escaped them in…