Preoccupations - New MaterialPreoccupations songs have always worked through themes of creation, destruction and futility and theyve always done it with singular post punk grit. The textures are evocative. The wire is always a live one. While that darker side may have been expertly explored, its not quite the same as having been fully, intensely lived. This time it was and the result is New Material, Preoccupations deepest and most fully realized record to date. In it lies the

little live video action

with its array of subsidiary concerns such as Bonatemp

The challenge with album number seven is one that any successful band with integrity faces: how to safeguard that legacy and hold on to their identity without rehashing old ground (unthinkable)

learning and rejecting things

LP - Limited copies on Translucent Black Vinyl

the first traditional song Jansch recorded and the first time he played banjo on record

and its parade of heavy metal thugs

The CD and LP come lavishly packaged with artwork by Julian House based on the original concepts for the music

choir and woodwinds being woven into the mix

They didn't really sound like anyone else around when their first album hit the streets in 1969 and no one has got near since

Louis Forster

the album will now be made available in the UK and Europe for the first time complete with new artwork