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What Occurs
Pop · 2024 · 13 tracks · 41m

What Occurs

Dry, intimate indie pop recorded live to capture the friction of a room. Off-kilter melodies meet sharp existential observations in a warm, analog space.

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It's like a live studio session where everyone is having a great time talking about how weird the world is.

A clever and slightly paranoid collection of pop songs that feels physically close and emotionally distant.

What Occurs · vs · Islands
Coffee Shop+3.6σ

Coffee Shop saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 41m
01
What Occurs
3:14
02
Drown a Fish
3:08
03
Tangerine
3:32
04
Arachnophobia
2:42
05
Move Some More
3:21
06
Boll Weevil
2:23
07
David Geffen’s Jackson Pollock
4:27
08
Hang
0:23
09
On the Internet
3:16
10
Sally Doesn’t Work Here Anymore
3:35
11
Talk Is Cheap
4:58
12
A Void
3:25
13
The End
3:20
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden, jarring transition from the 23-second interlude Hang into the digital anxiety of On the Internet.
The way the rhythm section locks into a tight, almost claustrophobic groove on Arachnophobia while the vocals remain breezy.
The vulnerable, unadorned piano melody that anchors the closing track The End, providing a grounded finish to the record's eccentricities.
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