Empress has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 17 October 2018. Empress's music has been featured on 26 episodes.

Hailing from Leeds (Northern England) Empress consist of Nicola Hodgkinson of Hood, The Remote Viewer and Boyracer and Christopher Coyle of Halkyn. After releasing an EP and Album for Pehr they jumped to Stephen Pastels label Geographic after touring with The Pastels and put out the self-titled album Empress. Their latest album The Sound They Made was composed in between train rides with Chris and Nicola traveling from Wales to Leeds throughout a year and released back on Pehr in 2003.