Espers - s/t
(Locust)
As often happens, you listen to something long enough and it begins to grow on you. That seems to be the case with this self-titled record from Espers. Greg Weeks leaves his solo music behind and unites with Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons to explore space age Elizabethan ideas. They play a number of different instruments among them and are joined by five other musicians to fill out their sound.
The potential is here for them to enchant in an Incredible String Band type of way, but they just haven’t perfected it yet. They come so close in Flowery Noontide, Hearts and Daggers and in Daughter. They miss the boat completely in Riding and in Voices. Meadow and Travel Mountains are solid tunes, but they leave little impression after they’ve ended.
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