It's interesting that this album was also a huge influence on another Canadian band, Braids, who grew up in Alberta and knew members of Women (not sure which members) when they played as the Neighborhood Council before they went to Montreal and changed their name to Braids. They repeatedly cited Women as a huge influence, in fact Women also served as mentors to their band if I remember right (ironic because while women are all male, Braids themselves have become identified as perhaps the best known feminist band in millennial indie rock, at least outside of straight up punk). Braids are rather underrated in their own right, considering that they make music with a much larger pop accessibility than Viet Cong/Preoccupations yet enjoy only very slightly higher success (e.g. they "only" have 10,000 twitter followers). At this point their styles could not be more different, but both the Viet Cong album and the last Braids album were among the final ten nominated for the Polaris Prize in 2015.

I would say Braids' debut album Native Speaker has become underrated and too-forgotten by this point, since the band themselves tend to downplay it and no longer play most of the songs live (due to the departure of a founding member who contributed on that album and was fired afterwards). Native Speaker is quite clearly the most critically acclaimed Braids album along with their third effort Deep In the Iris, but Deep... has enjoyed more mainstream recognition. Braids are too young a band to be seen as legendary yet, outside the fast-paced scene of Montreal itself, but Native Speaker may be one of those legendary indie albums in a little more time.