ESP Summer

A collaborative effort between His Name Is Alive's Warn Defever and Pale Saints' Ian Masters, ESP Summer originally combined Defever's minimal acoustic guitar figures and Masters' patient, lulling vocals for a dreamlike and pastoral reading of delicate indie pop. The project issued one dazzling self-titled LP in 1995 before disappearing for the next 25 years, until the new album Kingdom of Heaven appeared mysteriously in 2020. Defever and Masters met in 1992 when both artists were signed to the 4AD label. They became fast friends and Masters occasionally spent time as a touri...