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Preoccupations - Espionage
The track feels like it’s skulking around backstreets uninvited, scouring for information.
‘Espionage’ is a suitable title for Preoccupations’ comeback: the track feels like it’s skulking around backstreets uninvited, scouring for information. According to songwriter Matt Flegel, the band’s new record ‘New Material’ is “an ode to depression and self-sabotage”, and there’s an undeniably destructive element to its first track.
“Finishing ‘Espionage’ was when I realized, that I looked at the rest of the lyrics and saw the magnitude of what was wrong,” he continues in a press release. “Change is everything / But it’s nowhere to be found” he repeats incessantly through the track’s most intense passage, and there’s a catharsis from making it through a track as dense and full of darkness as this one, for both writer and listener.
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Preoccupations - Preoccupations (LRSD 2020) (Vinyl LP - brown)
Preoccupations - Preoccupations (Vinyl LP - black)
Preoccupations - Preoccupations (Cd)
Preoccupations - New Material (Cd)
Preoccupations - New Material (Vinyl LP - grey)
Preoccupations - New Material (Vinyl LP - black)
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Preoccupations - New Material
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