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"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
Slow Violence, the new double album by Occurrence, is an expansive statement about vulnerability and decay, about the things that terrify us and liberate us. Bandleader Ken Urban (electronics, synths & beats), Cat Hollyer (vocals, flute) and Johnny Hager (vocals) have created an album that reveals the “slow violence” that accrues over the course of our lives. After a pandemic-imposed separation, the band stretched out and experimented, repurposing previous recordings to craft an evocative album that captures both the bliss of falling in love and the pain of failure slapping you in the face. The album drops April 7, 2023, and features guest appearances from Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Christian Frederickson of Rachel’s, actor Peter Mark Kendall from TV’s THE AMERICANS, plus Johnny’s dad on trombone and Alexander McCabe on saxophone. Long-time band associate Daniel Kluger (TONY-nominated composer) contributed additional production on three tracks. The album was mixed by Kiri Stensby, who makes music as Hara Kiri, and mastered by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jessica Thompson.
01. Blossom Forth
02. Universe Moves So Fast
03. Fudge
04. Survive, Die Faster
05. You're Not a Miracle
06. This Isn't What I Imagined
07. Heels Over Head
08. The Future Pt. 1
09. Everything I Had Then / Slow Violence I
10. Love Is Love (Until It's Not)
11. November 30, 2014
12. All My Days (Final)
13. The Remote Past Tense
14. Messiah Longing
15. Slow Violence II
16. Depression Water
17. Water Into Ocean
18. Dissolve
19. Anonymous Data Call
20. Godwound / Slow Violence III
21. I Fucked The World To Get You To Love Me
22. Prepare My Body For Sleep
April 6-9 - MIT Music & Theatre Arts - Boston, MA
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