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Post by rayge on Mar 21, 2020 13:00:41 GMT
A Espers – Daughter
B Sibylle Bair – Tonight
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 14:56:28 GMT
A is loveliness. Without being twee or dated or contrived. Really, a pleasure. Banjo - I knew it was too good to last. Also, just having looked them up they're not dated because the music's from this millennium. This must have been influenced by folkies and singer-songwriters from the late sixties. Still, a joy.
B is more interesting than A. And lovely. Deeper, more idiosyncratic voice with a very slight rasp. Lyrically, I find it a bit ... well it's pretty much just a statement. I don't remember the lyrics of A but I'm not let waiting to hear what happens next either. More original than A but also more limited.
Tough call, both good.
A
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Mar 21, 2020 17:24:57 GMT
Not arsed about either of these.
A had a bit more to it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2020 20:09:16 GMT
I own the first one, so Vote A
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Post by fange on Mar 23, 2020 11:04:49 GMT
A just has a little more colour to it thanks to the extra instrumentation.
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Post by DarknessFish on Mar 24, 2020 21:21:54 GMT
Espers, I've not dug their albums out for ages. Meg Baird's first couple of solo albums eclipse everything that came before, really, everything that came after, too. But this is a lovely thing, light on its feet, feels like a timeless song that was found trapped in a mysterious forest. Incidentally, no banjo mentioned on the credits.
B's also a really good pick, a lovely delicate thing with a voice that sounds kind of deeply layered and world-weary. Musically and lyrically though, it's just a bit simpler, a bit more pop-based in its melody for me. Still makes me think I should go out and get the album, having said that, it's just up against something that's really, realy good.
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Post by osgood on Mar 25, 2020 10:13:38 GMT
Wow, great tie!!! I loved both to pieces. I think B deserves a vote, and in fact I might have liked it a little more. But cheers to both contenders
B
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 25, 2020 18:52:13 GMT
Both are very pretty. I choose . A by virtue of being just a wee bit more pretty.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2020 10:21:00 GMT
I did buy a couple of Espers albums back in the day, but whilst I liked their sound, the songs, largely, didn't stick with me. A reminds me why I was attracted to them in the first place. It's rather beautiful, reminding me a bit of "Willow's Song", and I liked that wooshing electronic counterpoint which added a layer of eeriness to the whole thing.
The song for B was quite mundane and I got bored of it, though I liked her voice.
Fairly easily...A
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Post by rayge on Mar 30, 2020 11:57:09 GMT
Very fond of Espers early in the century, listened to them a fair bit but couldn't tell you the name of any of their tracks and never thought of them as any sort of folk (although I accept that that's what they are, I just never saw it that way), any more than I would, say, Damon & Naomi, or Love Spirals Downwards. Maybe my memory is at fault, but I seem to remember a lot more harmony vocalising than on show here, and would have liked it better if it had.
As others have said, there's not a lot of song here, but the voice does have some character and feeling about it, and I quite liked the bumbling guitar.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2020 14:24:39 GMT
Espers! That's a name I haven't heard for years. Really lovely peice this, goregously ethereal. Yes, I remember why I liked them. It's not doing anything it doesn't need to, which puts it above a lot of the new weird folk contemporaries.
B is a second 'lost album' for the theme, this was recorded in the 70s but only released in 2006. Interesting piece which plays like a snapshot of her life.
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