Sylvan Esso - No Rules Sandy (LP)At the beginning of 2022, Sylvan Esso packed up and headed west. Cramming the contents of a recording studio into their Prius, Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath drove from their home in Durham, North Carolina to Los Angeles, where they set up a makeshift studio in a small rental house on the east side and did something that surprised them: they wrote a song. And then another. Even if we werent feeling good, we would just sit down and try to make

he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life

No working back in

the new project from prolific multi-instrumentalist Sam Gendel and visual artist/filmmaker Marcella Cytrynowicz

and documented it all

Cook and Joseph have been close their entire lives

“It’s the sound of us just individually trusting ourselves

wordlessly building the AUDIOBOOK world

and capture some of those ideas we had developed over the years

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” a stripped down and haunting track that’s unlike any Sylvan Esso song that has come before it

It’s a song you hear when you roll into a small town that just feels depressed –not financially

with songs that are “wilder and stranger and more cathartic than the band used to be