“It is alleged that the Inuits have 50 words for different types of snow. Well, Canadian art-punk quartet Preoccupations have nearly as many songs for different types of dread. Throughout their criminally underheard decade-long career, the group has taken the encroaching alienation and desolation of our times and spun the most pummelling and intense songs possible from them. Songs that displace, d”
“Preoccupations are frantic in the face of the end of the world on Arrangements”
“Grim, grey, and dour, the Canadian band’s fourth album offers a bleak look at the world and delivers some new textures but lacks some of the musical tension to really create sparks.”
“Preoccupations taking a chance on a shoegazier sound is a step in the right direction.”
