NEW VINYL LP ON JAGJAGUWAR 2018 180 GRAM COLORED VINYL. Preoccupations’ songs have always worked through themes of creation, destruction, and futility, and they’ve always done it with singular post-punk grit. The textures are evocative and razor-sharp. The wire is always a live one. But while that darker side may have been well-explored, that’s not quite the same as it being fully, intensely lived. This time it was, and the result is ’New Material’, a collection that broadens and deepens Preoccupations to a true mastery of their sound. In it lies the difference between witnessing a car crash and crashing your own, between jumping into an ocean and starting to swallow the water. Tracklist 1. Capsized2. Roma Fade3. Truth Lies Low4. Puma5. Chemical Switches6. Left Handed Kisses7. Are You Serious8. Saints Preservus9. The New Saint Jude10. Valleys Of The Young11. Bellevue
