We’d like to welcome you to “The Simphony” tonight; your featured performer is Empty Nesters, with a little help from Madeline Link. That’s right, the solo project of songwriter Eric Liao has joined forces with Madeline Link of the band PACKS. The collaboration took shape after the Montreal-based Liao acted as the opening act at a PACKS show. They quickly became good friends and now collaborators. Commenting on the song, Liao states: “A straightforward love song that is dedicated to my girlfriend. For fans of shoegaze and punk!” When writing “The Simphony,” Liao felt the song could be ameliorated if it included a female vocalist. He had actually already mostly finished the song before he came to this realization. It very much suits the vocal styles of both Liao and Link, with its fuzzy, ...