Electronic Pop from Occurrence

Hailing from New York City’s Washington Heights, Occurrence are a musical trio formed by electronic artist Ken Urban and vocalists Cat Hollyer and Johnny Hager. Together, the three combine to create their own unique brand of dark electronic pop music.

The project first started when Ken reached out to his college friend Cat after almost two decades of not seeing each other and asked if she would sing on his new material. Collaborating remotely, they created the debut Occurrence album The Past Will Last Forever in 2016 which featured Kip Berman of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart and Alejandro Necochea of Bang Camaro.

Making an impact straight away, they started to perform live and asked Ken’s partner Johnny to join as another vocalist. Now with the full line up they started working on the sophomore record Everyone Knows the Disaster Is Coming which dropped in 2018.

Since then they’ve shared multiple well-received releases and now bring us their latest work with their brand new single titled “Fudge”. Released in the build up to their forthcoming double album Slow Violence, set to drop in April, “Fudge” is the second single lifted from the record and offers the perfect example of a song that Ken wrote which allowed Cat to go to a more obscene place than she usually outwardly shares with the world.

Originally conceived as a completely different song, the group all agreed that the track wasn’t working. However, still enamoured with Cat’s vocal lines, Ken rewrote the piece around those parts and sampled Johnny’s extravagant operatic leads to create a new melody, resulting in a sound that all the members loved.

Spinning a hazy and gritty electronic soundscape full of driving beats, deep bass and piquant synth tones, on “Fudge” Occurrence weave a hypnotic alternative pop outing that showcases the depth of their creative vision with an engrossing song dripping in originality.

Listen to Fudge below