News
Visitor Due Out This Friday via Fat Possum
Feb 08, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Philadelphia-based punk quartet Empath have shared a video for their new single “Elvis Comeback Special.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Visitor, which will be out this Friday (Feb. 11) via Fat Possum. The band has also announced a string of tour dates for this year. More
Visitor Due Out February 11 via Fat Possum
Nov 09, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Philadelphia-based punk quartet Empath have announced the release of a new album, Visitor, which will be out on February 11 via Fat Possum. The band has also shared a video for its lead single, “Diamond Eyelids.” More
Sep 30, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Philadelphia-based punk quartet Empath have shared a video for their new single “Born 100 Times.” It is their first new music since the release of their 2019 album Active Listening: Night on Earth, and it is out now via Fat Possum. More
Reviews
Feb 24, 2022
By Jasper Willems
Noise as an agent of unmitigated joy sure is an underrated thing. This notion seems implicit in Empath’s flamboyant, sparkling punk rock anthems; this is a band that makes you want to charge a carnival on a sugar bender. More
Nov 04, 2019
By Michael James Hall
West Philly weirdos Empath’s first full-length sets out of its stall early on-on addictive opener “Soft Shape,” a blend of gentle psych, pastoral orchestration and tribal percussion lift Catherine Elicson’s fragile but complex melodies and plaintive vocal style-and the fun just rolls on from there. More
