Empath - Visitor - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2022 . On Visitor, Empath sought to one-up the range of sounds heard on their previous album. During what he calls West Philly Christmas (the week undergrads at UPenn move out and leave piles of high-quality garbage out on the street) Randall Coon recovered a suitcase organ with a sound bank from a Jamiroquai record preset on it, which he later played on the album, in addition to running samples on Ableton and acquiring a brand new synth; Jem Shanahan, who plays a '90s children's keyboard, had Portrait filter it in such a way that it sounded Inchless childlikeInch; Catherine Elicson's vocals, buried deep in the mix on Active Listening Night on Earth, take center stage; and Garrett Koloski's drums are as capacious as they might be in a live set.