PREOCCUPATIONS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM “NEW MATERIAL” OUT ON JAGJAGUWAR / RHYTHMETHOD ON 23RD MARCH, 2018
LISTEN TO/WATCH THE FIRST SINGLE “ESPIONAGE”
Preoccupations are returning in 2018 with their strongest and most powerful album to date. “New Material” builds a world that is dark and exhilarating by a band in their prime. The 4-piece self-recorded the album and then had Justin Meldal-Johnson (M83, Wolf Alice) taking care of the mixing to amplify the band’s singular post-punk grit. Their music has always been exploring the darker side of music and worked through themes of creation, destruction and futility. This time, the music is living fully on the darker side. The result is New Material, a collection of tracks that solidifies Preoccupations to be true masters of their sound.
Talking about the album, lead vocalist, songwriter and bassist Matt Flegel says “It’s an ode to depression and self-sabotage”. With virtually nothing written or demoed before the band sat down together, the process was more collaborative than on the previous album. For Flegel, it led to a reckoning. “Finishing ‘Espionage’ was when I realized, that I looked at the rest of the lyrics and saw the magnitude of what was wrong,” says Flegel.
New Material Tracklisting
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Espionage
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Decompose
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Disarray
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Manipulation
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Antidote
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Solace
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Doubt
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Compliance
