Preoccupations | Vinyl LP | New Material

Description: Calgary post-punk band Preoccupations have announced a new album: New Material out March 23rd via Jagjaguwar. Available here on Limited Edition Orange Colored LP, Standard LP, CD and Cassette Tape.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. New Material builds a world for that feeling, playing through its layers and complexities while hiding almost nothing. That inscrutable side is part of the magic, here, and a necessary counterweight to the straight-jab clarity of Flegel’s lyrics. You can deep-dive the lyrics or zone into a riff; you can face it or you can get lost in it. “My ultimate goal would be to make a record where nobody knows what instrument is playing ever,” says multi-instrumentalist Scott Munro, “and I think we’ve come closer than ever, here. It shouldn’t sound robotic — it should sound human, like people playing instruments. It’s just maybe no one knows what they are.”LP+ - Grey-Black Streaked Colored LP.LP - Black Vinyl with Download.CD - Standard CD.Tape - Standard Cassette.

Price: 16.34 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2024-09-08T18:39:44.000Z

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