Espers is a
psych folk band from
Philadelphia that is part of the emerging indie folk scene. They formed in 2002 as a trio of singer-songwriter
Greg Weeks,
Meg Baird and Brooke Sietinsons but later expanded to a sextet including Otto Hauser,
Helena Espvall and Chris Smith. 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.