“Feeding Time” by Occurrence

Occurrence will release their new album Real Friend, on February 28th, ahead of the LP’s arrival the trio have shared a video for “Feeding Time.” The NYC trio includes Ken Urban (electronics), Cat Hollyer (vocals) and Johnny Hager (vocals).

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.”

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