A short-lived studio-based project,
ESP Summer gave the pop underground one dazzling LP in 1994 and was never heard from again. Much like the pairing of
Brian Eno and
David Byrne in the early '80s,
Warren Defever (
His Name Is Alive) and
Ian Masters (
Pale Saints) made for an alignment of talented studio eccentrics of the time. Their excellent eponymous release was originally issued on cassette through
Defever's Time Stereo outlet, but was thankfully issued on disc over a year later on Perdition Plastics. A minimal, scatterbrained effort,
ESP Summer's dreamy acoustics made for one of the decade's unrecognized gems and was certainly deserving of the high regard of
His Name Is Alive and
the Pale Saints' best works.
–
Andy Kellman, Rovi