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

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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

Throwing Stones EP

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

Crave

Behind

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

Monsters

Making Worlds

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Making Worlds

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