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Aug 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts Viet Cong

Preoccupations, the band formerly known as Viet Cong, are releasing their first album under their new name, also titled Preoccupations, on September 16 via Jagjaguwar. Previously they had shared the album’s first single, “Anxiety,” via its video, along with another track from the record, “Degraded.” Now “Degraded” has an abstract animated video. Watch below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Valentina Tapia (Deerhunter’s “Snakeskin”) directed the video and had this to say about it in a press release: “This video offers an encounter with the primordial ruins of a post-human landscape, where sentient sculptural artifacts attempt to reassemble themselves piece by piece. Unidentified abstracted organisms carry on and thrive in a terrain that’s begun to settle back into itself, as rendered in scenes of mixed digital and painted 2D and 3D animation.”

Preoccupations Tour Dates:

08.21.16 - White Oak Music Hall - Houston, TX *

08.22.16 - Bomb Factory - Dallas, TX *

08.24.16 - Tricky Falls - El Paso, TX *

08.28.16 - FYF Fest - Los Angeles, CA

08.29.16 - Mountain Winery - Saratoga, CA *

08.30.16 - Ace of Spades - Sacramento, CA *

09.01.16 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR *

09.02.16 - Crystal Ballroom - Portland, OR *

09.28.16 - The Rickshaw Theater - Vancouver, BC

10.01.16 - Mac Hall Ballroom - Calgary, AB ^

10.03.16 - WECC - Winnepeg, MB ^

10.04.16 - Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, Mn ^

10.05.16 - Thalia Hall - Chicago, Il ^

10.07.16 - Crofoot Ballroom - Pontiac, Mi ^

10.08.16 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON ^

10.11.16 Theatre Faimount Montreal, QC ^

10.12.16 - The Sinclair - Cambridge, Ma ^

10.14.16 - Warsaw - Brooklyn NY ^

10.15.16 - First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, Pa ^

10.16.16 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington DC ^

10.18.16 - Masquerade - Atlanta, Ga ^

10.19.16 - Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, La ^

10.21.16 - The Mohawk - Austin, Tx ^

10.25.16 - Valley Bar - Phoenix, Az ^

10.26.16 - The Irenic - San Diego, Ca ^

10.28.16 - The Roxy - Los Angeles, Ca ^

10.29.16 - The Independent - San Francisco, Ca

11.02.16 - Neumos - Seattle, Wa ^

11.05.15 - Brudenell Social Club - Leeds, UK

11.06.16 - Gorilla - Manchester, UK

11.07.16 - Oval Space - London, UK

11.08.16 - Exchange - Bristol, UK

11.09.16 - Haunt - Brighton, UK

11.10.16 - Le Guess Who Festival - Utrecht, NL

11.12.16 - Botanique - Brussels, BE

11.14.16 - Pumpehuset - Copenhagen, DK

11.15.16 - Molotow - Hamburg, DE

11.16.16 Bi Nuu - Berlin, DE

11.18.16 - Musiques Volantes Festival - Metz, FR

11.19.16 - New Noise Festival - Paris, FR

11.21.16 - La Laiterie - Strasbourg, CH

11.22.16 - Klaus - Zurich, CH

11.23.16 - Magnolia - Milan, IT

11.24.16 - Quirinetta - Rome, IT

11.25.16 - Locomotiv - Bologna, IT

11.26.16 - Suprette Festival - Neuchatel, CH

11.28.16 - Luxor - Cologne, DE

11.29.16 - Paradiso Noord - Amsterdam, NL

^ w/ Methyl Ethel
* w/ Explosions In The Sky