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SYLVAN ESSO’S SYLVAN ESSO DEBUTS AT
#38 ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 200
MS MR REMIX OF “COFFEE” PREMIERED VIA NEON GOLD
CURRENTLY ON TOUR WITH TUNE-YARDS + NEW DATES ADDED BELOW
LISTEN: MS MR Remix of “Coffee” via Soundcloud or Neon Gold
WATCH: Official video for “Play It Right” via YouTube
WATCH: Sylvan Esso playing “Coffee” live at WNYC Soundcheck
“[Sylvan Esso] could sound like deliberately primitive 1970s electro in one song and glitchy, abstract techno in another behind Amelia Meath’s teasing voice” – The New York Times
“2014’s most intoxicating debut” –NPR
“It’s a pleasure and a relief to hear an album like this – a breezy, joyous piece of work, an album that sounds like spring” –Stereogum – Album Of The Week
Partisan Records is excited to announce the success of Sylvan Esso’s just-released self-titled album. The much anticipated record, their first, debuted at #38 on Billboard’s Top 200 Charts. Having sold over 7,000 copies, Sylvan Esso bypassed the Top Heatseekers Chart altogether by having such a successful initial chart entry debut. Sylvan Esso, currently supporting Tune-Yards in the EU and US, has just announced a new run of headlining shows abroad and at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. The full list of tour dates can be found below.
Sylvan Esso was not meant to be a band. Rather, 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, to 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.
Sylvan Esso became a band. A year later, their self-titled debut-a collection of vivid addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and deliverance-arrives as a necessary pop balm, an album stuffed with songs that don’t suffer the longstanding complications of that term.
These 10 tunes were realized and recorded in Sanborn’s Durham bedroom during the last year, an impressive feat considering the layers of activity and effects that populate them-the dizzyingly crisscrossed harmonies of “Play it Right,” the gorgeously incongruous elements of “Wolf,” the surreptitiously minimalist momentum of “HSKT.” Sanborn’s production is fully modern and wonderfully active. He enlists obliterating dubstep stutters and crisp electropop pulses, hazy electrostatic breezes and epinephrine dancefloor turnarounds.
But this isn’t a workout in production skills or a demonstration of electronic erudition. Instead, his music syncs seamlessly with Meath’s melodies, so that the respective words and beats become a string of ready-to-play singles. The irrepressible “Hey Mami” webs handclaps and harmonies around a flood of bass, a strangely perfect canvas for a tale of dudes hollering at neighborhood tail (and, finally, finding the chivalry not to do so).
“Coffee” sparkles and quakes, patiently rising from a muted spell of seasonal affective disorder to a sweet rupture of schoolyard glee. 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 represents the fulfillment of their fortuitous encounter by, once again, linking parts that too often come stripped of their counterparts. Here, motion comes with melody. Words come with ideas. And above all, pop comes back with candor.
Tour Dates:
5/26 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Concert House #
5/27 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge #
5/28 Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre #
5/30 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater #
5/31 New Orleans, LA – The Republic #
6/1 Houston, TX – Free Press Summer Festival
6/3 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom #
6/4 San Diego, CA – The Irenic #
6/5 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre # **SOLD OUT**
6/6 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore # **SOLD OUT**
6/7 Pasadena, CA – Make Music Pasadena Festival
6/11 St Louis, MO – The Luminary Center for the Arts
6/13 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club # **SOLD OUT**
6/14 Washington DC – 9:30 Club #
6/15 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer #
6/16 Boston, MA – Royale Boston # **SOLD OUT**
6/18 Montreal, QC – La Tulipe #
6/19 Toronto, ON – NXNE Festival
6/22 New York, NY – Webster Hall # **SOLD OUT**
6/23 New York, NY – Webster Hall # **SOLD OUT**
6/28 Milwaukee, WI – Burnhearts Street Festival
9/12 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
9/17 Dresden, DE – Altes Wettburo
9/18 Berlin, DE – Introducing Berlin @ Schwutz
9/19 Hamburg, DE – Hamburg Introducing
9/20 Essen, DE – King Kong Kicks @ Hotel Shanghai
9/22 Cologne, DE – Studio 672
9/23 Luxembourg – Rockhal
9/25 Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
9/26 Antwerp, BE – Trix Bar
9/27 Paris, FR – Badaboum
9/28 Zurich, CH – Stall 6
9/30 Brighton, UK – Green Door Store
10/1 Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds
10/2 London, UK – Oslo
10/3 Bristol, UK – Louisiana
10/4 Cardiff, UK – Buffalo Bar
10/6 Manchester, UK – Soup Kitchen
10/7 Dublin, IE – Workman’s Club
10/8 Belfast, IE – Black Box
10/9 Glasgow, UK – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy
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