Canadian post-punk favorites Preoccupations haven’t been away for too long, as their latest album, Arrangements, came out in late 2022. Regardless, they’re back: Today (February 11), the band ...

Canadian quartet Preoccupations have returned with their self-released, seven-track fourth album Arrangements, and It certainly makes for an intense experience. While most of us are trying to move on ...

Since forming in 2012 under their now-disavowed Viet Cong moniker, Preoccupations have made each subsequent record under an increasingly heavy blanket of hopelessness, digging further into humanity's ...

Calgary postpunk four-piece Preoccupations formed in 2012 from the ashes of noisy art-punk outfit Women. As Viet Cong, they dropped a strong debut album in 2015, then changed their regrettable name ...

In 2013, a Canadian post-punk band called Viet Cong embarked on its first tour, stopping to perform in a small, sweaty room in Brooklyn along the way. Their songs featured moments of rhythmic disarray ...

In 2012, Scott “Monty” Munro and Matt Flegel were playing in their buddy Chad Vangaalen’s band, content to support their project while noodling around on some of their own ideas in their spare time.

When Preoccupations decided to write and record its new album, each of the four members was going through his own growing pains, plus each had all moved to different cities. While the rest of their ...

Preoccupations’ drummer Mike Wallace once grimaced at the suggestion that the Calgary, Alberta band was part of a new guard in the post-punk/New Wave sound. Lead vocalist, bassist, and songwriter Matt ...

In a few short weeks, the great Calgary post-punk veterans Preoccupations will release their new album Ill At Ease. I have heard the record, and I can assure you that it's as good as you're probably ...

A wash of ringing sounds start us off - it could be a sound as cultured as Tibetan Singing Bowls or as simple as a damp finger rubbing steadily around the rim of a half full wine glass. Then, abruptly ...

Since its debut as Viet Cong in 2012 and subsequent name change in 2016, Preoccupations has released album after album of gripping post-punk. The group's latest, "New Material," is no different, even ...

The band’s third full-length is an easier and more melodic entry into their spindly post-punk. Here, their defeatism takes on a new tenor: battle-worn, sincere, and not quite so antagonistic. The ...