Click Here for Video Sample! Debut Album On Vinyl LP!
Featuring "Coffee", "Play It Right" & "Hey Mami"!
Sylvan Esso was not meant to be a band. Rather, vocalist Amelia Meath had written a song called "Play It Right" and sung it with her trio Mountain Man. She'd met Nick Sanborn, an electronic producer working under the name Made Of Oak, in passing on a shared bill in a small club somewhere. She asked him to scramble it, render her work his way. He did the obligatory remix, but he sensed that there was something more important here than a one-time handoff: Of all the songs Sanborn had ever recast, this was the first time he felt he'd added to the raw material without subtracting from it, as though, across the unseen wires of online file exchange, he'd found his new collaborator without even looking. Meath felt it, too. Schedules aligned. Moves were made. And as 2012 slipped into 2013, Sanborn and Meath reconvened in the unlikely artistic hub of Durham, N.C., a former manufacturing town with cheap rent and good food. Sylvan Esso became a band. A year later, their self-titled debuta collection of vivid addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and deliverancearrives as a necessary pop balm, an album stuffed with songs that don't suffer the longstanding complications of that term.
These pop cuts condescend neither to their audience nor their makers. They are sophisticated, but with none of the arrogance that can imply; they are addictive, but with none of the banality that can entail. There is sensuality and sexual depravity, homesickness and wanderlust, nostalgia and immediacy. Sylvan Esso acknowledges that the world is a tumult of complications by giving you a way to sing and dance with those troubles, if not to will them away altogether.
"Dance music's take on a folk ballad, merging drafty vocal interludes with a groovy pulse and manic jolts of sound" - Pitchfork
"An ambitious duo not content to stay in one genre or even one time period, Sylvan Esso sound distinctly contemporary and strangely timeless at the same time." - Spin
"The blend of Meath's earthy, irrepressible croon and Sanborn's synth bass-heavy dance production is remarkably distinct, and very engaging." - Stereogum
"'Coffee,' from Sylvan Esso's 2014 self-titled debut, plays like a warm and hazy memory. There is a muted sense of nostalgia when Amelia Meath sweetly sings about her lover doing the 'hanky panky' (a nod to Tommy James and the Shondells). The sparse instrumentation on the song allows you to hone in on shakers and twinkling keyboards while gentle electronic waves ripple beneath." - NPR Music, The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+
Features:
• Vinyl LP
• Limited time digital download
Selections:
1. Hey Mami
2. Dreamy Bruises
3. Could I Be
4. Wolf
5. Dress
6. H.S.K.T.
7. Coffee
8. Uncatena
9. Play It Right
10. Come Down
