Arrangements - Preoccupations: Review
Preoccupations are a Canadian post-punk band who rose from the ashes of Women as Viet Cong before changing their name to Preoccupations and evolving their dark and rumbling post-punk sentimentalities throughout. Review by Lav: Not every review I publish will start with a direct personal connection to the band despite the past two weeks where I confessed to having an embarrassing Teen Suicide phase in high school and being hopelessly attracted to The Garden. My relationship with Preoccupations is simpler, they're a great band and I love their music. I liked Women, I liked Viet Cong even more when various members of Women reformed as a new band and I liked Preoccupations when they debuted the name change in 2016. If there's one project in their catalog that I'm less than high on it's their previous album, 2018's New Materials and that isn't an unpopular opinion. So four years removed I was excited to see where the band went next and I honestly think that Arrange...