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Espers
III Wichita Recordings

Article written by Ged M - Dec 1, 2009

Espers: III

The press release suggests that Espers III was intended to have a lighter tone than the second album. It’s probably a little darker than that but finds a balance between the light folk touches we heard on Meg Baird’s solo album Dear Companion and Greg Weeks’ dark and dirgey solo effort The Hive. Diving into the dark side first, ‘I Can’t See Clear’ combines Meg Baird’s folky voice with Brooke Sietinsons’ phased guitars for maximum acid-folk effect, while ‘That Which Darkly Thrives’ is a dark, complex brew stirring up all sorts of ghosts and ‘Colony’ is an insistent coven of guitars, percussion and moaning violins. On the lighter side of things, ‘Caroline’ is lovely psych-folk, displaying to best effect Meg Baird’s sweet tones, while ‘Trollslända’ has a Fairport Convention-ish lightness of touch. The album has an old-fashioned approach and sound, very influenced by late-60s Brit-folk, that can be a powerful hallucinogen given the right mood.

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http://www.wichita-recordings.com/index.php/artists/detail/espers/
http://www.myspace.com/espers

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