Released September 16, 2016 | Length 38:16 | |
Studio The Barn Window Studio
Lost Cause Studios
The Area
Basketball 4 Life
Breakglass Studios Genre Indie rock, post-punk, art rock, noise rock, industrial, ambient Label Jagjaguwar (US)
Flemish Eye (Canada) Producer Graham Walsh
Matt Flegel
Scott Munro | ||
Preoccupations is the eponymous second studio album by Canadian rock band Preoccupations, released on September 16, 2016 on Jagjaguwar in the United States and on Flemish Eye in Canada. It is their first release since they changed their name from Viet Cong.
Contents
Release
The album was preceded by the singles "Anxiety", "Degraded" and "Memory".
Critical reception
Preoccupations received favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 21 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Writing for Pitchfork, Marc Masters stated, "What makes Preoccupations much more than a circular exercise in self-analysis is the vitality of the music. There’s a tense, nervous energy running through all the tracks, which connect to each other like wires that spark electrical currents when they meet".
Track listing
All tracks written by Preoccupations.
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Preoccupations.