Sylvan Esso Launch First New Track in Three Years, Announce Departure from Spotify

Sylvan Esso have returned with the duo’s first new single in three years, “WDID.” It’s their first tune on their very own document label, Psychic Hotline. Hearken to it beneath.

The brand new tune arrives with extra information from the band, as they’ve introduced that they’re taking their music off the Spotify streaming platform.

“As we put together to launch new music, we now have to determine what we need to be part of and what we don’t,” band members Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn shared in a press assertion. “To that finish, with Sylvan Esso being on our personal label for the primary time, we now have determined to take away our music from Spotify. Whereas no answer is ideal, we merely can’t proceed to place our life’s work in a retailer that, along with all its different obtrusive flaws, straight funds conflict machines.”

Sylvan Esso is the newest in a line of artists, together with King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu, and Deerhoof, who’ve left Spotify in response to the corporate’s CEO, Daniel Ek, investing within the AI weapons firm Helsing.

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“WDID” was recorded at Sylvan Esso’s personal studio in Chapel Hill, NC, Betty’s, with extra manufacturing from Jake Luppen. The tune arrives with visuals by artists Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson. The aggressive monitor costs ahead on an abrasive power that borderlines on industrial, with vocalist Meath asking the existential query, “What do I do after I run out of cash?” and the “algorithm solely needs my physique.”

The brand new single may even be launched as a bodily 12-inch single on January ninth, backed by a “unfastened and hypnotic” b-side titled “KEEP ON,” which was constructed from every week of improvisation alongside bassist Daniel Aged and drummer TJ Maiani. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Earlier this 12 months, Sylvan Esso teamed up with Maggie Rogers to document a canopy of “Anthems For a Seventeen Yr-Outdated Lady” for the Damaged Social Scene tribute album, Anthems: A Celebration Of Damaged Social Scene’s You Forgot It In Individuals.

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