II (Drag City, 2006) was the third album from Espers (presumably so called because it was their second album of original material). Espers is a psych folk band from Philadelphia that is part of the emerging indie folk scene. Their music is reminiscent of late-sixties British folk as well as many contemporary folk acts such as Six Organs of Admittance. Most of the band's members have also featured on recordings by a number of other folk artists such as Nick Castro and Vashti Bunyan and as a result have become an important part of the psych-folk revival. Their album of cover songs, The Weed Tree, released in 2005, featured the band's versions of songs by artists as diverse as Nico, The Durutti Column and Blue Öyster Cult. An esper refers to an individual capable of telepathy and other similar paranormal abilities. The term is derived from the abbreviation ESP for extrasensory perception.
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