Visitor

2022 release. 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 childrens keyboard, had Portrait filter it in such a way that it sounded less childlike; Catherine Elicsons vocals, buried deep in the mix on Active Listening: Night on Earth, take center stage; and Garrett Koloskis drums are as capacious as they might be in a live set.