Occurrence Announces New Album, Shares "Feeding Time" Single via Post Punk | 'Real Friend' LP Due February 28th

Occurrence Announces New Album, Shares "Feeding Time" Single via Post Punk Read Backseat Mafia, Chorus.fm, Spill, V13 and Psychedelic Baby Features Real Friend LP Due February 28th

Photo by Valerie Terranova PRE-SAVE: Occurrence - Real Friend LP Pre-save LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Occurrence - "Feeding Time" Stream | YouTube LISTEN & SHARE: Occurrence - Slow Violence LP Spotify | Apple Music "Fast paced, fluid, and taut" - New York Times "Expansive and consuming... unsettling and brilliant all at once."  - Atwood "Swoon-worthy"  - Jammerzine "There’s a seedy quality to the music and to Hollyer’s yearning vocals, but it draws you with the promise of something forbidden, something you’ve never experienced before." - BPM "Glitch, toned down trip-hip, and strangeness in its most pure forms" - Glide "A belligerent charm mixed in with all those low-end synth lines that feel like clenched fists pounding away" - Joyzine "Occurrence are thinking big" - V13 "Ken’s ability to bring parallel universes to life inside one song—the dark co-existing with something light—acted as a perfect backdrop to Johnny’s lyrics." - Psychedelic Baby Magazine New York City-based indie electronic trio Occurrence are returning to announce their fifth album, Real Friend. Occurrence are Ken Urban (electronics), Cat Hollyer (vocals) and Johnny Hager (vocals), and their newest album, Real Friend, began with a hug. Bandleader and instrumentalist Ken Urban explains, “We were coming out of the pandemic and finally the band was together again in our recording studio. Some edibles were had. And we were talking about friendship. Cat just hugged me for a long time in the kitchen and said, ‘You’re my real friend.’” While friendship isn’t the first casualty that springs to mind when you think COVID19, the trio all lost friends during that time. “Friends ghosted me, people drifted out of my life,” vocalist Cat Hollyer recalls, “and yet here we were, the three of us still making music.” Rather than fictionalize the experiences, the band went personal. “We wrote these songs about each other, about the people in our lives, without any filters,” according to vocalist Johnny Hager. Ken even sat down at a grand piano and wrote music free of any technology other than a microphone and a cassette recorder: “But please don’t think this is our unplugged album,” Ken jokes.  Alongside the announcement of Real Friend, they are sharing the album's lead single, "Feeding Time." The rock sound of this track was achieved with the help of guitarist Damian Baldet, a friend of Ken's that he hadn't spoken with in ages: “I wrote that song about calling myself out on my bullshit, but I kept hearing a proper guitar solo, so I reached out and Damian brought the riffs.” Johnny still can’t believe he belted it out, calling it “a special night in the studio when we tracked the vocals on that one.”  "Feeding Time" is out today. Real Friend is due for release on February 28th.   Occurrence - "Feeding Time" Real Friend - TRACK LISTING Real Friend Sensual Flower Feeding Time Opportunity Window Lost Dad Disco Nap Ambient Capital Imperfect Robots Hope Space Ballad Element Occurrence Bio: Occurrence are Ken Urban (electronics), Cat Hollyer (vocals) and Johnny Hager (vocals). Based in New York City’s neighborhood of Washington Heights, the band formed in 2015 when Ken reached out to his college friend Cat on social media after not seeing each other for almost twenty years. Ken was working on new music and he wanted to know if Cat would sing on them. They collaborated remotely on their first release, 2016’s The Past Will Last Forever, which featured contributions from Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Alejandro Necochea of Bang Camaro. When they began to perform the album live, they invited Ken’s boyfriend Johnny Hager to join as an additional vocalist. Johnny officially joined the band and they began work on new music at the band’s NYC studio The Berkshire Arms. Everyone Knows the Disaster is Coming was released in 2018 and was quickly followed up by a companion mini-album, If He Were Here, featuring new songs and remixes by the likes of Conelrad, H1987, and Assembled Minds. All proceeds from that release were donated to anti-gun violence campaigns. In 2020, the trio released a third album, I Have So Much Love to Give, which radically expanded their sound to include guitars and strings. The album’s twelve tracks charted the start and end of a romantic relationship, inspired by French writer Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse. The album featured Christian Frederickson of Rachel’s, actor Peter Mark Kendall (from TV’s The Americans) and TONY-nominated composer Daniel Kluger. Inspired by their post-pandemic reunion, the trio followed that album up with 2023’s Slow Violence, a double album released in April, hailed by Plastic Magazine as “a sonic tapestry that blends elements of indie pop, electronic music and shoegaze into a seamless whole.” After an intensive period of writing and recording, the band will unveil three new releases in 2025. OCCURRENCE LINKS Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Bandcamp | SoundCloud | Youtube