• Record Label: Warp
  • Release Date: Oct 23, 2007
Metascore
64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Prefuse 73 sounds freer, and yet more deliberately formal--most of the songs break down like classic hip-hop does, two-thirds of the way toward the end.
  2. Questions aside, it sounds badass; dope, even, like any good hip-hop record should.
  3. On closer inspection and at a suitably stupid volume, however, Preparations rocks and lurches in grand fashion.
  4. The edge is still very much here. Prefuse can still drop it apocalyptic-style, as he proves on 'Prog Version Slowly Crushed.'
  5. A supernal set of tracks ends Preparations, movements of pure reverie that complete the album in fitting fashion.
  6. Alternative Press
    80
    Herren manages to deliver another dense, cinematic electronic record without repeating himself or--worse--the competition. [Dec 2007, p.187]
  7. With its shyness, lack of flourish, unvarnished finish and relative dearth of guest appearances, Preparations is, more than any other Pref record, some decidedly this-level-type shit.
  8. There's nothing all that innovative here, but Preparations is warm and familiar enough to keep the brain buzzing.
  9. Spin
    70
    Preparations will leave you dizzy and wondering what it all means-- which may be the point. [Nov 2007, p.124]

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