{"id":2061259,"date":"2025-10-01T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2061259"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:57:15","slug":"local-pop-duo-sylvan-esso-removes-music-from-spotify-releases-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/local-pop-duo-sylvan-esso-removes-music-from-spotify-releases-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Pop Duo Sylvan Esso Removes Music From Spotify, Releases New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Durham-based electropop duo Sylvan Esso made a twofold announcement Tuesday. They both released their latest single in three years, and removed their discography from Spotify.<\/p>\n<p>\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 the band 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<p>The new single WDID is the group\u2019s first in three years, and their first single under their new label Psychic Hotline. It will be released as a 12\u2033 physical single alongside B-side \u201cKEEP ON\u201d on January 9. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/09\/sylvan-esso-new-song-wdid-leaving-spotify\/\">According to Consequence of Sound,<\/a> the single was recorded in the duo\u2019s Chapel Hill studio with production assistance from Jake Luppen.<\/p>\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<p>In July it was announced that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is one of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/17\/spotifys-daniel-ek-leads-investment-in-defense-startup-helsing.html\">primary investors in European defense startup Helsing.<\/a> Following this, multiple artists removed their discography from the platform in protest, including King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Xiu Xiu, and more. Sylvan Esso is the latest.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced the same day Sylvan Esso departed that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2025-09-30\/spotify-announcement-daniel-ek-executive-chairman\/\">Ek will step down as CEO and transition into a new role<\/a> as executive chairman in 2026.\u00a0Alongside anger over its CEO\u2019s investments, the platform has been criticized by artists for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/11\/spotify-says-its-payouts-are-getting-better-but-artists-still-disagree\/\">paying less per stream than similar platforms<\/a> like Apple Music and Tidal.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvan Esso consists of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn and has been active since 2013. They have released four studio albums, with the most recent being 2022\u2019s \u201cNo Rules Sandy.\u201d Of their particular style, the New York Times said \u201cSylvan Esso evades the booming, repetitive overkill of typical electronic dance music. Instead, the tracks stay fragile and keep coming deliberately unsprung, defying mechanical regularity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image via Sylvan Esso on Facebook<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http:\/\/Chapelboro.com\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Chapelboro.com<\/a>\u00a0does not charge subscription fees, and you can\u00a0directly support our efforts in local journalism\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chapelboro.com\/supportus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. 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They both released their latest single in three years, and removed their discography from Spotify. \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 the band said in a statement. \u201cTo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2061260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":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-2061259","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\/10\/Local-Pop-Duo-Sylvan-Esso-Removes-Music-From-Spotify-Releases.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061259","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=2061259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061261,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061259\/revisions\/2061261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2061260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}