II (Espers album)

II is the third album from the band Espers. It was their first to be released on Drag City. The song "Children of Stone" was later covered by Marianne Faithfull on her 2008 album Easy Come, Easy Go. The song 'Mansfield And Cyclops' was also included in The Amorphous Androgynous' A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Vol 1 - Cosmic Space Music in the same year.

II
Studio album by Espers
Released	May 16, 2006
Recorded	October–December 2005, Hexham Head Sound Laboratories, Philadelphia, PA
Genre	Folk, psychedelic folk, New Weird America
Length	50:01
Label	Drag City
Producer	Greg Weeks
Espers chronology
The Weed Tree (2005) II (2006) III (2009)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Dusted Magazine	(mixed) [3]
The Guardian	[4]
The Independent	[5]
musicOMH	[6]
The New York Times	(positive) [7]
Pitchfork Media	(7.9/10) [8]
Stylus Magazine	(A-) [9]
The Village Voice	(mixed) [10]
Yahoo! Music	[11]

Track listing

1. "Dead Queen" – 8:13
2. "Widow's Weed" – 6:51
3. "Cruel Storm" – 5:17
4. "Children of Stone" – 8:54
5. "Mansfield and Cyclops" – 5:57
6. "Dead King" – 8:02
7. "Moon Occults the Sun" – 6:47