{"id":2060450,"date":"2025-09-30T20:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2060450"},"modified":"2025-09-30T20:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T20:20:57","slug":"sylvan-esso-return-with-wdid-pull-music-from-spotify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sylvan-esso-return-with-wdid-pull-music-from-spotify\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvan Esso Return With &#8216;WDID,&#8217; Pull Music From Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tElectro-pop duo <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sylvan-esso\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sylvan-esso\" data-tag=\"sylvan-esso\">Sylvan Esso<\/a> have returned with their first new single in three years \u2014 which is being released on their new record label, Psychic Hotline \u2014 and announced their decision to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/artists-left-spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-military-tech-1235425098\/\">pull their music from Spotify<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe track, \u201cWDID,\u201d is an urgent, cutting blast of agit-pop filled with grinding synths, in-the-red drums, and a warning cry from vocalist Amelia Meath: \u201cIt\u2019s the northern lights\/It\u2019s wreckage all around\/It\u2019s a genocide\/It\u2019s a Burger King crown\/It\u2019s happening\/It\u2019s happening\/It\u2019s happening now.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sylvan Esso - WDID (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/twtmK1U-d4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song\u2019s sentiment is fittingly in line with Sylvan Esso\u2019s decision to pull their music off <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spotify\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spotify\" data-tag=\"spotify\">Spotify<\/a>, partly in protest of co-founder Daniel Ek\u2019s ties to Helsing, a German defense tech company with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. (Other artists who\u2019ve taken similar stances include Massive Attack, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-bandcamp-name-your-price-1235424321\/\">King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard<\/a>, and Xiu Xiu.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cAs we prepare to release new music, we have to decide what we want to be a part of and what we don\u2019t,\u201d Sylvan Esso said in a statement. \u201cTo 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\u2019t continue to put our life\u2019s work in a store that, in addition to all its other glaring flaws, directly funds war machines.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWDID\u201d marks Sylvan Esso\u2019s first new music since 2022, when they released their fourth studio album, <em>No Rules Sandy<\/em>. Per a press release, the group has spent the past year working on new material with new collaborators, though no other details were revealed. \u201cWDID\u201d will get a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ffm.to\/SE-WDID\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">physical release<\/a> as well, with a 12-inch single arriving Jan. 9; it\u2019ll include the b-side, \u201cKeep On,\u201d which features contributions from bassist Daniel Aged and drummer TJ Maiani.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast year, Sylvan Esso celebrated the 10th anniversary of their 2014 self-titled debut with a a reissue featuring eight new tracks. They also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/postal-service-sylvan-esso-district-sleeps-alone-tonight-remix-1235085547\/\">remixed the Postal Service\u2019s<\/a> \u201cThe District Sleeps Alone Tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso have returned with their first new single in three years \u2014 which is being released on their new record label, Psychic Hotline \u2014 and announced their decision to pull their music from Spotify.\u00a0 The track, \u201cWDID,\u201d is an urgent, cutting blast of agit-pop filled with grinding synths, in-the-red drums, and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2060451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22821,383927],"class_list":["post-2060450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-spotify","tag-sylvan-esso"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sylvan-Esso-Return-With-WDID-Pull-Music-From-Spotify.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}