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Espers - Weed Tree
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Year :: 2005
Label :: Locust Music
Cat No :: L 73
Genre :: Folk
Tracks :: 07
Size :: 49,8 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 05/11/2005
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Acid folk, baroque psych or sinister sunshine-pop;
take your pick, cos Espers are riddled throughout the
lot! Whilst the title of this album (consisting
predominantly of covers) may suggest some kind of
dreadful Glastonbury stall selling knob shaped bongs,
it in fact refers to a weed which started to grow
when the members of the band "were making some
important life decisions". Whimsy alert! However
don't run to the hills just yet, as Espers have
fashioned a record which treats a combination of
traditional compositions and material from Nico, Blue
Oyster Cult etc. with a dark-hearted operandi that
Bert Jansch would surely approve of. Opening through
the traditional piece of 'Rosemary Lane', the 6-piece
band add a Wickerman fragrance to the outwardly
innocent sea-shore melodies ("if he's a boy he'll
fight for the king, if she's a girl she'll wear a
gold ring"), a trick they repeat throughout 'The Weed
Tree'. So whilst Durruti Column's 'Tomorrow' is a
wistful lament and Nico's 'Afraid' becomes the
slightest of creaking nursery-rhyme compositions, it
is the closing 'Dead King' (the only original piece
on the record) which really whets the appetite;
brimming with a barely tempered yearning and
intricate folk excursions. Weed out the pretenders;
Espers are coming.
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[01] Espers - Rosemary Lane [04:39]
[02] Espers - Tommorow [04:07]
[03] Espers - Black Is The Color [05:33]
[04] Espers - AFraid [03:11]
[05] Espers - Blue Mountain [04:47]
[06] Espers - Flaming Telepaths [09:58]
[07] Espers - Dead King [04:40]
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