Sylvan Esso have returned with the duo’s first new single in three years, “WDID.” It’s their first song on their own record label, Psychic Hotline. Listen to it below.
The new song arrives with more news from the band, as they’ve announced that they’re taking their music off the Spotify streaming platform.
“As we prepare to release new music, we have to decide what we want to be a part of and what we don’t,” band members Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn shared in a press statement. “To that end, with Sylvan Esso being on our own label for the first time, we have decided to remove our music from Spotify. While no solution is perfect, we simply can’t continue to put our life’s work in a store that, in addition to all its other glaring flaws, directly funds war machines.”
Sylvan Esso is the latest in a line of artists, including King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu, and Deerhoof, who’ve left Spotify in response to the company’s CEO, Daniel Ek, investing in the AI weapons company Helsing.
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“WDID” was recorded at Sylvan Esso’s own studio in Chapel Hill, NC, Betty’s, with additional production from Jake Luppen. The song arrives with visuals by artists Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson. The aggressive track charges forward on an abrasive energy that borderlines on industrial, with vocalist Meath asking the existential question, “What do I do when I run out of money?” and the “algorithm only wants my body.”
The new single will also be released as a physical 12-inch single on January 9th, backed by a “loose and hypnotic” b-side titled “KEEP ON,” which was built from a week of improvisation alongside bassist Daniel Aged and drummer TJ Maiani. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Earlier this year, Sylvan Esso teamed up with Maggie Rogers to record a cover of “Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” for the Broken Social Scene tribute album, Anthems: A Celebration Of Broken Social Scene’s You Forgot It In People.
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