Artist：Espers
Album：Espers
Release Date：2003
Label：Locust Music
Country：US
Genre：Rock
Style： Acoustic, Psychedelic Rock, Neofolk
Tracklisting:
| 1 | Flowery Noontide (4:10) | |
| 2 | Meadow (4:11) | |
| 3 | Riding (4:09) | |
| 4 | Voices (3:44) | |
| 5 | Hearts & Daggers (8:34) | |
| 6 | Byss & Abyss (6:03) | |
| 7 | Daughter (3:03) | |
| 8 | Travel Mountains (6:30) |
簡介。。。。。。
Espers is a neo-psychedelic folk band from Philadelphia. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser, Helena Espvall and Chris Smith. Their music is reminiscent of late-sixties british folk such as that of Fairport Convention, The Pentangle and The Incredible String Band as well as many contemporary folk acts such as Six Organs of Admittance, Marissa Nadler and Nick Castro and as such their work is often lumped in with the so-called new weird america movement or naturalismo as Devendra Banhart preferred to coin it in 2006. Most of the band's members have also featured on recordings by a number of other folk artists, old and new, such as Nick Castro and Vashti Bunyan and as a result have become an important part of the psych-folk revival.
They released their self-titled debut, Espers, in 2004 to much acclaim and followed that with an album of cover songs, The Weed Tree, in 2005. This release featured the band's versions of songs by artists as diverse as Nico, The Durutti Column and Blue Öyster Cult. In 2006 the band released their third full-length Espers II on Drag City Records.
我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數：8.2/10
Espers不像是生活在這個時代的人物，倒像是來自40多年前的迷幻精靈，仿佛是Jefferson Airplane和Incredible String Band的混合體，橫跨大西洋兩岸打通了英美兩地迷幻民謠的脈絡。
Espers的迷幻民謠和Banhart等的不太一樣，後者藥物作用的感覺很強烈，古怪而玩世不恭，聲音上也偏于實驗。Espers的感覺則完全是幻想烏托邦式的，非常美麗，如同愛麗絲漫遊的奇境，樂器的編制上效仿Incredible String Band，用木吉他、提琴、揚琴、長笛等製造出古樸華麗的巴洛克情懷，樂隊的主要作曲者Greg Week在這方面浸淫多年，顯然功夫極爲老到，而評論的焦點也集中于此。但我認爲女樂手兼主音MegBaird的嗓音也是樂隊一鳴驚人的的重要原因，其神秘且捎帶黑暗情結的聲綫，從仙音派和中世紀民謠流派那裏借鑑了不少東西，她讓Espers的音樂不僅僅是1960年代迷幻民謠的複製品，更發展了1980 年代以來的低調女聲，縹緲虛無同時也流淌著暗色情緒。相比較Baird的曼妙嗓音，Week的低沉聲綫，雖然也可圈可點，但基本上沒有擺脫Acid- Folk的範圍，在歌唱方面的創新精神，落後于Baird。
Mazzy Star冰冷絕望，Mojave 3飄逸活潑，而Espers的音樂，兼具著陽光般的明媚和宿命般的暗淡，那些非店聲樂器編結出的音樂織体，同時展現著這兩种情緒，如同雙面夜鶯，婉轉的歌歌喉中，並列著悲傷和歡樂，黑夜之日或者白晝之月，雖是矛盾，卻極迷人。(摘自上海一周 欣欣向榮文）
去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
They released their self-titled debut, Espers, in 2004 to much acclaim and followed that with an album of cover songs, The Weed Tree, in 2005. This release featured the band's versions of songs by artists as diverse as Nico, The Durutti Column and Blue Öyster Cult. In 2006 the band released their third full-length Espers II on Drag City Records.
我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數：8.2/10
Espers不像是生活在這個時代的人物，倒像是來自40多年前的迷幻精靈，仿佛是Jefferson Airplane和Incredible String Band的混合體，橫跨大西洋兩岸打通了英美兩地迷幻民謠的脈絡。
Espers的迷幻民謠和Banhart等的不太一樣，後者藥物作用的感覺很強烈，古怪而玩世不恭，聲音上也偏于實驗。Espers的感覺則完全是幻想烏托邦式的，非常美麗，如同愛麗絲漫遊的奇境，樂器的編制上效仿Incredible String Band，用木吉他、提琴、揚琴、長笛等製造出古樸華麗的巴洛克情懷，樂隊的主要作曲者Greg Week在這方面浸淫多年，顯然功夫極爲老到，而評論的焦點也集中于此。但我認爲女樂手兼主音MegBaird的嗓音也是樂隊一鳴驚人的的重要原因，其神秘且捎帶黑暗情結的聲綫，從仙音派和中世紀民謠流派那裏借鑑了不少東西，她讓Espers的音樂不僅僅是1960年代迷幻民謠的複製品，更發展了1980 年代以來的低調女聲，縹緲虛無同時也流淌著暗色情緒。相比較Baird的曼妙嗓音，Week的低沉聲綫，雖然也可圈可點，但基本上沒有擺脫Acid- Folk的範圍，在歌唱方面的創新精神，落後于Baird。
Mazzy Star冰冷絕望，Mojave 3飄逸活潑，而Espers的音樂，兼具著陽光般的明媚和宿命般的暗淡，那些非店聲樂器編結出的音樂織体，同時展現著這兩种情緒，如同雙面夜鶯，婉轉的歌歌喉中，並列著悲傷和歡樂，黑夜之日或者白晝之月，雖是矛盾，卻極迷人。(摘自上海一周 欣欣向榮文）
去豆瓣上看看。。。。。。
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