Today the Calgary band Preoccupations dropped the music video for Focus.
The leading single is taken from their upcoming album Ill At Ease which is set for release on May 9, 2025 via Born Loser Records.
A dark sleek post-punk rocking tune that sounds very Joy Division/New Order.
About the track by Preoccupations:
Focus…or the lack thereof. Shame and regret: waking up with it, not being able to sleep because of it, and finally falling asleep and having nightmares about it.
I put myself a thousand years in the future with these same feelings.
While having so many better things to be worried about, as the world falls apart, still finding it impossible to look past meaningless misgivings.
The well of dark things to write about seemingly has not dried up, and lyrically it’s where I still tend to draw from.
Draining all my anxieties into a song is often the only way I can get through a day. Some songs exist in a world with barren plains of burnt earth, covered in a dust of shame, dread, death, where all the things I love are things that kill me.
Some come from the perspective of another distant world, looking skyward into a science fiction ocean of space, solitude, slight hope.
Sometimes I’m looking around at the world that we live in now with incredulity, hilariously dissatisfied with how it’s all turned out, and assuming that it can’t be long before it’s all over.
Some songs are just a reflection of me looking down at my feet while I trudge along wondering what I’m doing with myself, and if the ground is going to fall out from underneath me at any given moment.
Focus gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Preoccupations – Focus [Music Video]
