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Empress
Empress
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Planless
2. 1:34
3. All We've Seen
4. 0:50
5. A Very Small Step
6. Here It Isn't
7. 1:20
8. Uphill
9. Safe
10. Don't Give Up On Me
11. Scenery
12. Hey It's Over
13. 1:38
14. Danger I Know
15. 0:38
16. Through It All
17. In The Sky
18. Bigger Things
19. I am Not Cut Out For This
20. His Own Sense
21. No One Knows
22. A Restless Reminder
23. Cause To Doubt

CD Details

All Artists: Empress
Title: Empress
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Original Release Date: 1/1/1999
Release Date: 1/1/1999
Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 676347700622

Synopsis

Album Description

"Let's talk about becoming fragile, when hearing music can leave your body shaking and fingers twitching across goose pimpled skin. Or when the sound and tones don't leave your head. Beautiful, yes, but not in the right direction of healing. Empty, damaging, yet it's still beautiful... This Empress LP may be my favorite record of the year. It calls to mind the sparseness of Low and mysteriousness of Movietone, a little more lo-fi with the absolutely breathtaking and heartachingly fragile voice of Nicola... If you aren't shivering by the time Nicola sings "don't give up on me..." well, then the world is a prerfect place and there is no unhappiness." Kickbright, 1999.

CD Reviews

An Overlooked Release In The Slowcore Genre

HeidiKakes | NY | 08/18/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an incredible disc by a band who truly knows how to write a beautiful song (or 20+ for that matter). Empress' Self-Titled album features incredibly slow yet intricate lo-fi rock in the vein of slowcore legends, Low but with quiet, delicate female vocals. While the songs are incredibly slow and brooding, they are ironically very short with most hovering around the 2-minute mark. Luckily, because of this there are over 20 songs for listeners to enjoy. While at times a few songs feel like unfinished bedroom projects because of this, the vast majority are fleshed out in their brief running time and can only be considered miniature slowcore masterpieces. All in all, Empress is a band who truly finds beauty in sadness and introspection in loneliness."