Empath ★★★★ Visitor FAT POSSUM. CD/DL/LP

Second album from Perfect Pussy alumni. A delight.

The sleeve of Visitor is a handsome portrait of the interior of a hipster house. The paintwork is rose pink and margarine yellow, all the doors are ajar, but the house is empty and has a sinister chill about it. Which is the exact opposite feeling you get listening to the album. The Philadelphia quartet’s second has a deep warmth emanating from it, a communal spirit is scattered over these 11 songs. Some straightforward pop melodies are wrapped in a coat of ‘found’ sounds and a production veneer (aided by

Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Jake Portrait) which gives the soundscape a cinematic depth. Moreover, a levity underpins the psychedelic jumble, with songs like Born 100 Times, Bell and Diamond Eyelids summoning up the spirit of a squally J Mascis guitar solo or a freeform jam by The B-52’s.