Watch Empath’s Video for New Song “Passing Stranger”

Empathy shared a video for their new song “Passing Stranger.” This is the latest single on their upcoming LP guest, release next month. Watch the video for “Passing Stranger” — taken by Halle Ballard at Empath member Catherine Elicson’s apartment — below.

Empath’s last LP was in 2019 Active Listening: Night on Earth. In November, Empath shared a video for “Diamond Eyelids,” the first single from guest. That track first appeared as a b-side for the loose single ”Born 100 times. ”

In the new single, Elicson said in a statement:

“The beat was inspired by druggy Velvet Underground drums, on top of which Randall began to improvise a loud tremolo on his synth. One of the slowest songs we’ve written without an abrasive moment. Finally we have to do a fade out. This song is written in a similar way to ‘Diamond Eyelids’ ie blending memories. This time I put together different memories from my childhood, some idyllic, some difficult, but it seemed like it was a story about someone who came back to their town. The melody of this song is in a really old iPhone voice memo that I made and forgot. If I listen to it again after a year or so, I think it’s so bad that it’s tempting that I have to stop writing it. I also want a song where I can turn off my sweep pick in a way that isn’t intimidating. I hope to be considered the vanguard of sweep picking in pop music, thank you.

Read the “Rising” section of Pitchfork “Meet Empath, Four Friends Who Make Noise Rock That Can Be Like Violence. ”