ESPERS started just a few short years ago as a trio from Philadelphia featuring singer/songwriter Greg Weeks, Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons. Their infectious sound quickly brought them increased attention and stints performing with legends like Brigitte St. John, The Incredible String Band and Michael Hurley.

Tonight they deliver a live set of psyche-folk-drone and hypnotic sounds, caustic lead guitars, cellos, doumbeks (Middle Eastern drums) and dholaks (north Indian hand drums) that reinforce and contradict each other in ways that are almost physically intoxicating. Where an acoustic guitar twinkles, its electric counterpart gets frazzled. The predictable warm afterglow of one song is matched by the slippery squeaks, bleeps and Wicker Man weirdness of another....

Philadelphia's Espers, a truly remarkable band. The trio mix altered state guitars and pastoral unease with far more grace and originality. In their hands, folk music is a living organism, droning and plucked, unsettled and unsettling. The Guardian

?A bewitching record? MOJO 4/5

?a simple, homespun delight? The Guardian 4/5

?The most potent resuscitation so far of a form that never completely dies?? The Independent 4/5

?a relaxing, transfixing album that is a joy to be immersed in.? Word

?a terrific sustained album? Uncut 4/5

?back-to-the-futurescapes that are both lush and subtly unnerving?? NME 8/10

"Espers II is a thrillingly mutant, atmospherically charged affair, respectful of folk's history but unbowed by it's weight..." Time Out

?Espers lure you into faerie land and then torch the bridge? The Observer

?...masters of medieval folk with a technological twist? Independent On Sunday 4/5

?the perfect soundtrack to a gothic version of Alice In Wonderland? Sunday Telegraph 4/5

?this acid-folk six piece?s second album is magical? Independent Information 4/