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SYLVAN ESSO – ” What Now ” Best Albums Of 2017

Posted: November 14, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Acclaimed US electro pop duo Sylvan Esso bought out their warmly received second LP “What Now” out this year .  For quite some time this blog-hyped, neon-synth deploying duo from North Carolina have been in the peripheral vision of the cool kidz’s vision.

The North Carolina folk-meets-electro duo return with a bigger, bolder take on their sound with What Now? While the instrumentals are as euphoric as ever, the album also reflects the troubled and anxious environment in which it was created.

“I think we definitely write music about exactly how we’re feeling at any given moment. When I listen to it, I hear how anxious we were and I also hear how joyous we were. I hear the claustrophobia in the production of what we were working with, and even lyrically, I think I hear us looking around for meaning…” – Nick Sanborn says on the origins of the album’s title, selected in the wake of Donald Trump’s election.

They write bedroom-pop (or is it on-the-go commuter headphone pop?)

Comprising of vocalist Amelia Meath from acclaimed indie folk outfit Mountain Man and producer Nick Sanborn, the pair issued debut LP Sylvan Esso to sizeable praise in May 2014, scoring widespread acclaim and a place on the US Top 40 Album Chart. 
Signed to Loma Vista Recordings “What Now” received similar praise,The LPs lead single Die Young has scored almost a million YouTube views and a recent BBC 6 Music session for Lauren Laverne has spread word of group’s beguiling electro-pop .

SYLVAN ESSO – ” Echo Mountain Sessions “

Posted: July 30, 2017 in MUSIC
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Sylvan Esso has always been a duo, featuring the beats and electronics of Nick Sanborn and the voice of singer Amelia Meath. But back in April, right about the time Sylvan Esso was releasing its second album What Now, Amelia and Nick got a bunch of their North Carolina buddies to join them in a studio in Asheville to record some of the tracks from What Now with a big, live band. Members of Wye Oak, The Mountain Goats, Hiss Golden Messenger, Mountain Man and Megafaun got together for a day at Echo Mountain studios, reimagined the songs of Sylvan Esso and captured the whole thing for a visual EP they’re calling Echo Mountain Sessions.

“The songs breathe in this totally different way,” Sanborn told us about the project. They’re “reflected back at us by our friends in our community. It just reminded us what [the songs] were.”

Echo Mountain Sessions includes five songs that originally appeared on Sylvan Esso’s most recent full-length, What Now: “Rewind,” “Die Young,” “The Glow” and “Slack Jaw,” all performed and filmed live at the Echo Mountain studio in Asheville, N.C. 

You can also hear and watch the full group perform the Sylvan Esso song, “Rewind”

 

MUSICIANS 
Matt Douglas: flute; Ryan Gustafson: guitar; Amelia Meath: vocals; Nick Sanborn: bass; Molly Sarle: vocals; Alexandra Sauser-Monnig: vocals; Jenn Wasner: keys; Joe Westerlund: drums

SYLVAN ESSO – ” Kick Jump Twist “

Posted: November 19, 2016 in MUSIC
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Hearing a new song from Sylvan Esso always makes for a better day. Today I woke up to an email offering a new track “Kick Jump Twist,” and it’s 4:22 of bubbly joy. Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn have been performing this song in their live shows and now it’s the b-side for a new bit of vinyl, a 12″ titled Radio, which includes two more variations of this effervescent ode to dance. The song was premiered during a DJ set yesterday on WKNC in Raleigh, N.C.

The a-side to this vinyl is “Radio,” which came out in late August.

“Radio / Kick Jump Twist” 12″ single available now via Loma Vista Recordings.

PURE BATHING CULTURE – ” Pray For Rain “

Posted: November 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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Pure Bathing Culture – Pray For Rain
Portland duo Pure Bathing Culture follow 2012’s self-titled debut with this, a record richer than its predecessor in every sense. There’s not much going on, but the band’s knack for warm melody means you can get lost in every track. ‘The Tower’ and ‘Clover’ charm most, timeless pop songs that move slowly, as if they’ve been out in the sun for too long.

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Last month, Pure Bathing Culture put out their glistening sophomore effort Pray For Rain, and today the title track has gotten a remix courtesy of Sylvan Esso. Somehow, the two feel like compatriots, even though they’re not very sonically similar — I guess it’s because they’re both duos, wrangling with sounds that are just a little bit past their peaks. Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn — who just put out a solo EP recently as Made Of Oak — proudly evades the characteristically boring remix route and creates something that can actually stand on its own away from the original track, using its basic structure as more of a guideline than a rule.

“Sometimes when you get asked to remix a song you already love, it can be tough to find a good angle without completely changing the vibe,” Sanborn  “So it was really cool of Pure Bathing Culture to give Amelia and I so much leeway on this stylistically. If there are any house DJs out there who ever get down to 105bpm, this one’s for them.”

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