The production was handled by Yorn himself together with R. Walt Vincent, Scott Seiver, Sunny Levine, Jeff Trott and Marc Dauer.

[10] Philip Wilding of Classic Rock wrote: "while the results haven't got the near-reckless zeal of the young Yorn's records, the sense of longing reflects the broken-down feel--strumming acoustic guitars, the light thrum of a snare--of some of the material he was writing back in the early 2000s".

[11] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine found "on this record, Yorn seems to master mood more than tune, but that winds up being to his benefit.

This tonal elasticity gives ArrangingTime an enveloping warmth, one that is alluring even if it tends to shift concentration away from the songwriting that allegedly was his greatest strength".

[12] Cai Trefor of Drowned in Sound claimed "his dull lyrics get made more of a point of through repetition, they shine brighter than his well-crafted moments of introspection.