Taste Test: Empty Measures climb out of depression with haunting ‘Still Here’
A new musical trio wind from the darkest depression to find hope anew.
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You can never understand what it’s like to teeter on the edge of a bottomless abyss, mentally speaking, unless you’ve been there, looking out over nothing but pitch black. Of course, human beings with a heart can certainly express deep empathy. Singer-songwriter trio Empty Measures spiral out with only a piano, at first, before webbed strings cry in the background. “Still Here” is a gutting exhibit of the most tortured kind of pain in existence. “I’ve been there / That belt looked good / Been on that balcony where you stood,” the lyrics fall like knives scraping across concrete. It’s the kind of performance that’ll leave you speechless.
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