Espers: Espers on LP
Espers
The good old vinyl record.
For vinyl shipping within Germany is free.
- Label:
- Drag City
- Year of recording ca.:
- 2004
- Item number:
- 9696795
- UPC/EAN:
- 0781484073512
- Release date:
- 13.3.2020
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Espers' self-titled first release appeared in 2004, heralding an era in which there was a perception of back-to-the-roots in the underground; kids making new music that spoke strongly of folk traditions and psychedelia, in the process setting themselves apart from latter-day sounds and approaches. Espers didn't shy away from this image, projecting a collective air, almost like a rural outpost, out of time and place in the urban environs of Philadelphia.
The staid harmonies of Meg Baird and Greg Weeks, the 6- and 12-string guitars and percussion of Brooke Sietinsons, the full-bodied arrangements rife with traditional and classical details and the regular intervention of acid-toned guitar leads formed, along with the mystic and melancholy cast to their songwriting, a galvanizing identity for them among other like-minded music players of the day.
Espers, existing in between places, were a part of a flow of ideation that has as much to do with revelations from the 70s or 60s - with all the decades of the last century, really - as it does with the current expressions in favor of selfhood and safety that are struggled over today. Their music has retained a mysterious, unknowable vitality that, in the name of their original intention, continues to express Espers' individualism, optimism and deeply empathetic soul.
The audio samples belong to the article Espers: Espers (CD). The track list may differ for this item.
LP
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1 Flowery Noontide
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2 Meadow
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3 Riding
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4 Voices
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5 Hearts & Daggers
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6 Byss & Abyss
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7 Daughter
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8 Travel Mountains
