Philadelphian psych folkers Espers headline this year's Shred Yr Face tour, backed up by similar neo-folk bands The Cave Singers and Woods.

It's that we're saying Espers are bad – far from it.  It's just that their weird blend of lo-fi pop, psychedelia and freak beat, highly reminiscent of bands your bearded middle-class uncle likes, (i.e. The Fairport Convention, Pentangle, and The Incredible String Band), is hardly the balls-to-the-wall thrash/hardcore the tour's name implies, is it?

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