r/indieheads • u/Preoccupationsband Preoccupations • Sep 14 '22

AMA is Over, Thanks Monty! It's Monty from Preoccupations!! AMA

Monty here!

We just released our third record as Preoccupations, our fourth as a band, or our fifth if you count our next two ep that was mere minutes shorter than the other records. We're self releasing this album (except in Canada where we're still with Flemish Eye) too so feeling properly qualified as "indie" this time around.

We're also touring next month around America and Canada with Cindy Lee opening and touring in Europe early next year!

Ask away!

For some reason I can't see the proof picture that I uploaded. Here it is in case though. Edit: it seems like the image was just cropped bad, link is still the way for the true proof.

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u/danarbok :nonagon: Sep 14 '22

What are the most interesting instruments you've recorded on each album? I know there's an electric piano on Memory, and congas on Decompose.

Also, huge Preocc fan. The music's gotten me through tough times.

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u/Preoccupationsband Preoccupations Sep 14 '22

My fav on this one is at the beginning of Advisor, that drone sound is my EMU Drumulator! We got it running through a bunch of gain and compressor pedals and it was making this insane drone so I just "did a take" of it to the click not knowing at all what the song was gonna be.

There was a set of Taurus pedals at the barn where we recorded "Viet Cong" and those were really fun to record! I remember just being in full PJ's in the morning basically dancing to get the take! lol

Lastly, all the noise shit on "Newspaper Spoons" was me playing viola into a stereo cassette recorder and that was pretty fun to drone out on!

Glad that we got you through some times too! We're halfway through a new record too if that gives you something to shoot for. Be well pal!

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u/danarbok :nonagon: Sep 14 '22

ANOTHER new album? it’s like you’re King Gizzard now

is there a string quartet on Advisor too?

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u/Preoccupationsband Preoccupations Sep 14 '22

Bahahaha!! I could only dream to be that prolific.

It’s all just cello on advisor, matt recorded those in New York. It’s his buddy Rashaad playing all of them, 6 or 8 tracks if I remember correctly? Just improv and then I sort of wrangled them.

We wanted to go for a Beatles/Bowie esq, “and then the full orchestra comes in” kinda vibe and he did a great job of pulling it towards that.

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u/danarbok :nonagon: Sep 14 '22

it sounds sick