Preoccupations

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PREOCCUPATIONS

PREOCCUPATIONS ARE ILL AT EASE ON TOUR 2025

With love and pride, Preoccupations present to you: Ill at Ease, our 5th long play and our first on the Born Losers record label. 
After thousands of hours of scrutinizing over every last detail of this record, I find myself with the unenviable task of now trying to explain why we made the thing, what the thing is, and who we are.
We’ve been defining and redefining for a mostly very lucky 13 years. Lucky if not counting all of the broken bones, broken vehicles, exploding gear, stolen gear, lost baggage, lost friends, lost hearing, and lost minds. We once thought some of these misfortunes might be exceptional, but getting older we realize these are all just things that come with the territory, and the rewards we get for the passing of time. We’ve played 400+ shows across the globe, usually living and working together in claustrophobic quarters. We’ve aged together, making albums along the way. Some have even been reasonably acclaimed, others have been merely tolerated. 
Which brings us to the now and our album Ill at Ease. It’s hard to say how it fits into our canon, but it’s definitely drawing from places or genres that we haven’t drawn from in the past. Whether we want to admit it or not, any music we’re currently listening to is, I’m sure, always informing our collective subconscious. 

GOON

Music can be catharsis and a refuge both, a way to expel the pain of a tragic situation and also to find comfort in the creation of something beautiful. With their new single, the haunting, autumnal “Death Spells,” Goon occupies both of these spaces, evokes an experience of immense pain and the journey through to the first steps of healing. 
Goon began in 2015 as singer and multi-instrumentalist Kenny Becker’s solo project, releasing a compilation of his best home recordings, the 2016 EP Dusk of Punk. With a full band in tow, Goon released the band’s first full-length, 2019’s Heaven is Humming on Partisan Records, followed by the self-released Paint By Numbers 1. Becker recruited a new band—Andy Polito on drums, Dillon Peralta on guitar, and Tamara Simons on bass—releasing a second LP, Hour of Green Evening, as well as another EP, Red Ladder, in 2022.