Espers

"Acid-folk maestro Greg Weeks' psychedelic trio Espers with Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons has created a delicate and blissfully unsettling debut ... "Flowery Noontide" conjures images of home-baked '60s folk played by sincere and optimistic flower children and dark and dreamy drifters. "Meadow," similarly, recalls the sunshine and doom chamber pop and subtle acoustic guitar of Donovan on "Susan on the West Coast Waiting" or "Atlantis," or Fairport Convention".

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"Acid-folk maestro Greg Weeks' psychedelic trio Espers with Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons has created a delicate and blissfully unsettling debut ... "Flowery Noontide" conjures images of home-baked '60s folk played by sincere and optimistic flower children and dark and dreamy drifters. "Meadow," similarly, recalls the sunshine and doom chamber pop and subtle acoustic guitar of Donovan on "Susan on the West Coast Waiting" or "Atlantis," or Fairport Convention".

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"Thankfully, Greg Weeks' steady stream of neo-folk records (culminating in 2001's landmark Awake Like Sleep and 2003's more esoteric, Slightly West) has been supplying listeners with a lush blend of psych-charged melancholia (a la Nico) and kaleidoscopic drones while always retaining beautifully baroque melodies as their focal point. However, it's his work with Espers, an expanding folk collective which also includes members Meg Baird and Brook Sietinsons, that accounts for some of his most accomplished work to date".

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