my favourite song. Can listen to it almost every day

Brilliant... I just imagine a "4 on the floor" version 😃

voice as your God gift / love your music so much/

☆ Beautiful Evolution of the Voice: an influence of Vince Clark and Erasure? ☆ Empathic Song ☆ 🎶😎

Empathy Test: Collected

The debut song by Empathy Test, an electronic pop duo from London, UK. Originally released in February 2014 on the Losing Touch EP. Re-released as part of the Losing Touch LP in November 2017.

LYRICS:

Scared of losing touch
If I really mean that much
Why pretend that you love him?
Don't call me out the blue
When it's clear that I still do
And you know he knows it too.
Going home alone
The only love I've known
It's always been you.
It’s always been you.
 
Tell me it's not real
Tell me he doesn't make you feel
The way I made you feel.
If you care for me at all
You'll hang up when I call
You'll clear me space to fall.
If you give I will receive 
And despite what they believe
It's always been you.
It's always been you.
 
It’s always been you.
 
When you're feeling alone
And you're colder than stone
Call me you know...
It's always been you.

Losing Touch

Losing Touch EP

For the upcoming motion picture "H8RZ," directed by Derrick Borte.
Cover of the beautiful Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)

Demo.

Dont You (Forget About Me)

Kirrilee

The empathy test in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is based on the premise that machines, no matter how advanced, lack compassion. But for childhood friends, Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production), Empathy Test is all about wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. With driving synth chords, punchy 4/4 beats and euphoric ‘80s melodies, the London-based duo take inspiration as much from modern acts like Chvrches and Purity Ring as they do from Vangelis and Depeche Mode. But far from sounding like just another ‘80s-electro reboot, Empathy Test have cultivated a mesmerizing and immersive identity which sets them apart from pretty much anyone else on the scene.

With an insistence on glorious hooks and instantly memorable vocal lines, Empathy Test are refreshingly unafraid to be pop music. Since self-releasing their debut EP “Losing Touch” in February, Empathy Test have picked up thousands of fans via sheer word-of-mouth and late-night tweets, and collaborated with Richard Swarbrick on numerous viral animation videos for ESPN and Liverpool FC. Empathy Test signed to Brooklyn’s Stars & Letters Records in the spring of 2014, with their follow-up EP “Throwing Stones” releasing December 9th, 2014.

Website → http://empathytest.com
Facebook → http://facebook.com/empathytest
Twitter → http://twitter.com/empathytest
SoundCloud → @empathytest

©℗ 2014 Empathy Test

Throwing Stones EP

Empathy Test - Holding On

Website → http://empathytest.com
Facebook → http://facebook.com/empathytest
Twitter → http://twitter.com/empathytest
SoundCloud → @empathytest

The empathy test in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is based on the premise that machines, no matter how advanced, lack compassion. But for childhood friends, Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production), Empathy Test is all about wearing their hearts on their digital sleeves. With soaring synthetic chords, precision beats, and jubilant 80s melodies — all coated in soft, irresistible melancholy — the London-based duo takes inspiration as much from modern acts like CHVRCHES and Purity Ring, as it does from Vangelis and Depeche Mode. But, instead of sounding like a mere update of 80s’ electro, Empathy Test produce a mesmerizing and immersive identity which sets them apart from pretty much everything else currently on the scene. Shadows envelop hymns, a note sustains too long, a lyric confesses too much: It’s the heart of darkness, not compassion, that beats slow and steady.

While the lingering nighttime aesthetic that Relf conjures up provides the initial hook, Howlett’s vocal mastery pushes the stakes ever higher, providing the urgency and romanticism to Relf’s crystalline production. Little wonder that the duo has amassed a sizable and passionate online following: With an insistence on glorious hooks and instantly memorable vocal lines, Empathy Test are refreshingly unafraid to be pop music. Since self-releasing their debut EP “Losing Touch” in February, Empathy Test have picked up thousands of fans via sheer word-of-mouth and late-night tweets, and collaborated with Richard Swarbrick on numerous viral animation videos for ESPN and Liverpool FC. Empathy Test signed to Brooklyn’s Stars & Letters Records in the spring of 2014, with their follow-up EP “Throwing Stones” releasing December 9th, 2014.

© 2014 Stars & Letters Records
℗ 2014 Empathy Test

Empathy Test - Throwing Stones

The third track from Empathy Test's self-released debut EP, Losing Touch, released 28th February 2014. Available to buy now in all major digital stores. Re-released November 2017 as part of the Losing Touch album.

LYRICS:

She sings me the saddest of songs
I cannot help but sing along
Forever after in my head.

There’ll be no stopping once she starts
The eternal burden of the queen of my heart
I want to be free, but can't let go.

She doesn't really know why...

I feel so tired I could die
Leave my window open wide
Let my spirit feel the night.

Now I have nothing more to say
I said too much now anyway
Lead me out into the night

The last night on earth...

And it’s you -
Running rivers through me
It's like you always knew me
From the moment of my birth
You'll be the death of me.

It’s you -
Running rivers through me
It's like you always knew me
From the moment of my birth
You'll be the death of me.

And now I have nothing more to say
I said too much now anyway
Lead me out into the night.

Last Night On Earth

The fourth and final track from Empathy Test's debut EP, Losing Touch, released 28th February 2014. Available to buy now in all major digital stores. Re-released November 2017 as part of Empathy Test's debut album, also titled 'Losing Touch'.

LYRICS:

If it wasn’t for the loneliness (then)
I could bare the solitude of
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now

Where I find myself.

And I’ve been down so long now that
It just looks like up to me.
These terrible silences, these,
Horrific injuries are,
Simply where I find myself now

Where I find myself.

We bury ourselves deep inside with the
Things we cannot vocalise and
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now

Where I find myself.

But even as my back is turned your
Undoing all the things we’ve learned and
These terrible silences, these
Horrific injuries are
Simply where I find myself now

Where I find myself

Where I find myself

Where I find myself

Where I Find Myself

Please Don't Wake Me Up Part 2

Website: www.badlands.nu 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/badlandssounds
Bandcamp: http://badlandssounds.bandcamp.com 
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ECHO LYRICS

this town is like a ghost town
 if you speak your mind you'll hear an empty echo

this town is like a ghost town
 all my teeth are falling out and make  a dance of...

this town is like a ghost town 
there is nothing good in here i can't make bad

℗&© Badlands 2016

Locus

Buy here!

Echo

THE NEW LP "KINGDOM OF NIGHT" out OCTOBER 1st, 2016 

"STAND YOUR GROUND" premiere on BLOODY-DISGUSTING.com via NEWRETROWAVE.com - September 1st, 2016: bloody-disgusting.com/music/3404955/confrontational-challenge-stand-ground-premiere - youtu.be/YwHYCDJSFgk 

SIDE A: 
1 Kingdom Come 
2 In The Line Of Fire 
3 Without Fear 
4 Stand Your Ground (Feat. Tony Kim) 
5 Midnight Wings (Feat. Ugo Laurenti) 

SIDE B: 
6 Tanit 
7 Keep Faith (Feat. Hélène De Thoury) 
8 The Night Is Done 
9 Crimson Curtains (Feat. Cody Carpenter) 

All Music & Lyrics, Vocals & Instruments Performance By M. USAI except where noted. Copyright (c) 2016 - www.confrontational.net 

CODY CARPENTER appears courtesy of LUDRIUM 
www.ludrium.bandcamp.com 
HÉLÈNE DE THOURY appears courtesy of HANTE. 
www.hante.bandcamp.com 
TONY KIM appears courtesy of DANCE WITH THE DEAD 
www.dancewiththedead.bandcamp.com 
UGO LAURENTI appears courtesy of TRAFFICARTE 
www.soundcloud.com/trafficarte 

"KINGDOM COME" features samples from the sculptures of Pinuccio Sciola, taken from the short documentary "BORN OF STONE" - vimeo.com/98572925 - www.fondazionesciola.it 

Produced, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered at THE CRIMSON DOME By MASSIMO USAI in Cagliari, SARDINIA (Italy) between January - August 2016 

TONY KIM - Lead Guitars on "STAND YOUR GROUND" 
UGO LAURENTI - Synths on "MIDNIGHT WINGS" 
HÉLÈNE DE THOURY - Vocals on "KEEP FAITH" 
CODY CARPENTER - Lead Synth on "CRIMSON CURTAINS" 

Heartfelt thanks to Hélène, Cody, Tony, Ugo, the Sciola family and Emilio Bellu for being a part of this.

Release date: October 1, 2016

07 Keep Faith (feat. Hélène De Thoury)

Official music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTbeDS8dak

Available now on 12" Vinyl and CD! https://newretrowave.bandcamp.com/album/arms-of-night
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She says these drugs are a lullaby
For her soul
For her soul

One of these days
She'll live her life
With full control
Full control

She'll learn
To forgive herself
She'll love me
And no one else

She'll learn
To forgive herself
She'll love me
And no one else
No one

I will roam this land
This phantom land
I will roam this land
That binds her

I will roam this land
With heart in hand
I will roam this land
To find her

It's windy through the alleys
Drenched in rain when you see me
Warm eyes but not so many words
Don't show me where your heart hurts

I will roam this land
This phantom land
I will roam this land
That binds her

I will roam this land
With heart in hand
I will roam this land
To find her

Where time goes
Only she knows
And waits
Patiently

She says these drugs are a lullaby for her soul
If I would have known she'd taken her life I would have stopped...
Long ago

Written and produced by Dead Astronauts
Mastered by Slade Templeton (Influx Studios, Bern, Switzerland)
Distributed by Zoey Records in co-operation with NewRetroWave Records

To Find Her

AKUMA OUT NOW !!!!

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COLLABORATORS:
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Cursed (Feat. WVLFPAKT & Mecha Maiko)

By an Ion & Timecop1983 -Falling Apart (The New Division Remix)

Pathos

Following the success of double A-side single, Holy Rivers / Incubation Song, which has racked up over 150,000 streams on Spotify since its October release and was praised by Clash Music for its “shimmering synths, glacial electronics, and heartrending vocals”, London Synthpop group Empathy Test returns with a second, tantalising taste of their upcoming third album, in the form of new single Empty-handed.

Empty-handed presents another sonic leap forward for a band that has never been one to tread water when it comes to their sound, presenting a harder, darker style whilst simultaneously tipping their proverbial hat to the Synthwave scene that helped launch their career back in 2014. An arpeggiated synthesiser provides a relentless momentum from the get-go, while the deceptively simple composition gradually builds to its epic conclusion.

Opening line, “My heart is an empty vessel / Drifting out to sea” sets the tone both lyrically and emotionally. It’s about being unable to give a partner the emotional support or commitment they need and the feeling of emptiness that comes with that. As always, Empathy Test delivers a perfect marriage of music and emotion, the sudden flourishes of strings and synthesisers rushing past like spirits in the night. 

There’s a sense of urgency here that has not been present previously, as well as an innate confidence that suggests the third album, which comes after the simultaneous release of two debut albums Losing Touch (Remastered) and Safe From Harm in November 2017 and is slated for release in early September, might just be the band’s most accomplished to date.

Empathy Test is childhood friends Isaac Howlett (vocals and songwriting) and Adam Relf (production and composition). They perform live with the help of Christina Lopez (live drums) and Samuel Winter-Quick (live keyboards). This June, they tour the UK with Canadian Post Punk band Actors and in September, North America, with Industrial Pop act Aesthetic Perfection. They will also be appearing at selected festivals in Europe. 

Empty-handed will be self-released in digital and CD formats on 20th June 2019, with b-side A River Loves a Stone and remixes by ex-Black City Lights producer TRAAPS and LA artist and producer Ari Mason, plus the band’s customary 7” vinyl picture disc format, all of which can be pre-ordered right now from Empathy Test’s Bandcamp.

For more information, please feel free to contact Empathy Test on email: info@empathytest.com

Empty Handed

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