on ESH (Empire State Human) -
Based in Dublin/Ireland Empire State Human formed in 1999. Band members are Aidan Casserly, Seán Barron & Lar Kiernan. ESH create contemporary song and instrumental based electronic music, with a retro-electro edge.. Their music is a combination of analogue and digital synthesized sound, mixed with powerful rhythms and overlaid with strong pop vocal melodies. Releases since 2002 - Pop Robot, Music For Human, Alpha & Omega, Liquid Blue, Urbanism, Live On Mars, Cycles, Terra Incognito: parts 1>5, Digital City, Popularity? & Rarity?. 130 tracks available from iTunes - their recording output speaks for itself. Currently writing their next studio album 'Audio Gothic'.

Music we create -
Has been described as I.D.M (Intelligent Dance Music). A recent review of "Popularity?" our 2006 best of read ...."songs which bounce like tiny dots of neon lights and smooth fluorescent beams shooting onto a silver painted dance floor". This is cool too.

ESH Reviews -
Electroage (Canada) "ESH is truly a unique collision of dreamy pop and otherworldly electronics." Chaindlk.com (USA) "The band's influence goes from Kraftwerk to English 80's electro pop, passing through an unique process: originality."

Electronically Yours (UK) "Apollo is pure brilliance and sends shivers down my back with the finely crafted melody and haunting rifts confirming that there is real talent on this record."

Seven (UK) "Superb synth leads & imposing rhythms, alternating with more spacey, FX driven parts."

21st Century Ballroom Dancing (UK) "Damn near the perfect pop group these two lucky ear holes have heard all season. Suss enough to play by the rules, but brilliant enough to break them."

AcyD BURN (USA) "This CD from a musical standpoint adds another notable notch in the continuing history of Synthpop/Electro-pop music. ESH continue to impress their fans by improving their sound with each release. Alpha & Omega contains 15 tracks of immense synthpop and electropop masterpieces that will easily become more valuable as time goes on."

Side Line Magazine (Belgium) "On the 22 track (!!) album you get smashed around the head with future synthpop hits that go in like a warm chocolate milk on a cold winter evening."

e-lectric.de (Germany) "While listening to POP ROBOT for the first time, it is the distinctive high voice of the singer that stands out. Besides the catchy melodies, the trademark of ESH, there's really catchy instrumental pieces. This is Synthpop of absolute purity and high quality. Their own style is mixed into a kind of synthpop, which has saved its place in the hall of fame."

Dark City Zone (Russia) "Conceptual artists not only exist in Rock/Metal, but also in electro-pop. Irish band Empire State Human have created this conceptual album ('Pop Robot'), combining different elements of Deep House, Ambient Electronica & Modern Synthpop."

CDBaby.com "This is an Album of the finest crafted pop around, coated in a soundscape of the 80's and early 90"s Brit-Dance scene. Re-definition of the genre of synthpop would be a closer one, by a group that has given us IDM (Intelligent Dance Music)/Intelligent Pop a Re-definition in song-craft and production from day one."

Link to ESH website(s) -
http://www.myspace..com/empirestatehuman
http://www.ninthwaverecords.com

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