Espers’ “Dead Queen” from II: Songs for A Year In The Country 24/26

Released in 2006 this song still sounds decidedly contemporary while also being part of a lineage of reimaginings of folk  that can be traced back to 1960s and 1970s acid/psych folk. As with many of the “Songs for a Year In The Country” it conjures a world, time and space of its own…

 

Link:

• Stream “Dead Queen” at Spotify
• Espers’ II at Drag City’s site
• The “Espers, coruscation and the demise of monarchs” post at A Year In The Country