Album artwork for Viet Cong by Preoccupations

Recorded in a barn-turned-studio in rural Ontario, the seven songs that make up Viet Cong were born largely on the road, when Flegel and bandmates Mike Wallace, Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen embarked on a 50-date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable. Close quarters hastened their exhaustion but also honed them as a group. You can designate records as seasonal, and you can feel Viet Cong's bleakness and declare it wintry. But the only way you get a frost is when there's something warmer to freeze up. So yes, Viet Cong is a winter album, but only until it is a spring record, then a summer scorcher, then an autumn burner, then it ices over again.

Preoccupations

Viet Cong

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Album artwork for Viet Cong by Preoccupations
LP

$22.99

Released 01/20/2015Catalog Number

JAG260lp

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Album artwork for Viet Cong by Preoccupations
CD

$13.99

Released 01/20/2015Catalog Number

JAG260lp-C1

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Preoccupations

Viet Cong

Jagjaguwar
Album artwork for Viet Cong by Preoccupations
LP

$22.99

Released 01/20/2015Catalog Number

JAG260lp

Learn more
Album artwork for Viet Cong by Preoccupations
CD

$13.99

Released 01/20/2015Catalog Number

JAG260lp-C1

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Recorded in a barn-turned-studio in rural Ontario, the seven songs that make up Viet Cong were born largely on the road, when Flegel and bandmates Mike Wallace, Scott Munro and Daniel Christiansen embarked on a 50-date tour that stretched virtually every limit imaginable. Close quarters hastened their exhaustion but also honed them as a group. You can designate records as seasonal, and you can feel Viet Cong's bleakness and declare it wintry. But the only way you get a frost is when there's something warmer to freeze up. So yes, Viet Cong is a winter album, but only until it is a spring record, then a summer scorcher, then an autumn burner, then it ices over again.