Exclusive video premiere of ‘Universe Moves So Fast’ by Occurrence, taken from their upcoming album, ‘Slow Violence,’ out April 7th, 2023.

This song is inspired by a saying in Spanish, “inocente palomita que te dejaste engañar,” which translates to “naive little pigeon, you’ve let yourself be fooled.” It is usually something you say on April Fool’s Day when you ask to borrow something, when, in reality, you’re stealing it. Ken wrote lyrics that took the saying and made it about loss, and the fear of it. This is a song about thinking your hard work is going to pay off and then failure slaps you hard in the face.

Actor Peter Mark Kendall plays guitar on this version of the song. In addition to being on the album, Ken included the song in a new play he is working on called “The Tenure Itch,” which takes its name from a The Pains of Being Pure at Heart song.

Music video was directed by Sarah E. Jenkins and Gina Kamentsky.

While their third album had to be completed remotely due to the pandemic, the trio reunited after two years apart in Fall 2021, embarking on the recording of their ambitious fourth album ‘Slow Violence’. A double album boasting 22 tracks, the band pushes its sound forward with songs inspired by Rob Nixon’s concept of “slow violence.” Nixon’s term describes the unseen violence that the West perpetrates against the developing world, violence that takes years, sometimes decades, to register. The band takes that concept as an apt metaphor for how the trio’s personal lives are the products of the slow violence of their collective pasts. The new album was mixed primarily by Kiri Stensby (who records as Hara Kiri) and mastered by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jessica Thompson. The album will be released on April 7, 2023 by Archie & Fox Records digitally and on compact disc. There will be an accompanying dance-theater piece that will premiere at MIT for six performances to correspond with the release, plus a limited-edition art book featuring lyrics, interviews with the band, photography that inspired them, and writers reflecting on the album.

Headline photo: Cameron Scoggins

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