No Rules Sandy: Sylvan Esso's New Album "Challenges All Expectations" (The New York Times, Critic's Pick), Out Now on Loma Vista Recordings

Watch Them Dance From The Warehouse to The Forest Floor in "Echo Party" Music Video: HERE

Amelia Meath & Nick Sanborn Kick Off Amphitheater Tour with ODESZA, Announce Psychic Hotline Block Party with The A's, Arooj Aftab, Bartees Strange, GRRL x Made of Oak, Indigo De Souza & More

"It's uniquely thrilling to witness the way Meath and Sanborn see each other in every song" - NPR Music    "A bold and defiant example of what could happen when you walk back into the world, 'wilder and stranger' than before" - NME, ★★★★   "Their most creatively fulfilling project yet" - Consequence

 

Today, Sylvan Esso let their freak selves shine with the release of a resounding new album, No Rules Sandy. Created primarily over the course of three weeks that Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn spent in a small Los Angeles rental home at the beginning of 2022, it is both the fastest the band has ever made a record, and the most uninhibited. "Even if we weren't feeling good, we would just sit down and try to make something," Meath says. "Pretty much every day that we did that, we got a song that we liked." Out now on Loma Vista Recordings, No Rules Sandy is accompanied by a thrilling music video for the standout "Echo Party." Directed by Lindsey Nico Mann, the visual follows Meath as she raves from a downtown, warehouse dancefloor to the mossy ground of an otherworldly forest. Over wobbling bass, warbling vocals and the ecstatic promise of a party you may never be able to leave, an exhilarating tension emerges between the lightness and darkness of a good time.    Listen to No Rules Sandy, and watch the video for "Echo Party" here:  https://lnk.sylvanesso.com/EPVideo

"Echo Party" follows a series of similarly enthralling, emotionally complex singles, including "Sunburn," "Your Reality" and "Didn't Care," and across the rest of No Rules Sandy, Sylvan Esso continue to leap from the frameworks of pop and electronic music into a wilder unknown. Between the band's most frenetic production, cathartic hooks and strangest sounds to date, Sanborn says, "I want everything to feel like something you've heard before, but presented in a way you've never heard."

Produced and written by Sylvan Esso, with additional recording taking place at their own Betty's studio in Chapel Hill, NC, No Rules Sandy also features contributions from drummer TJ Maiani, string arrangements by Gabriel Kahane, and saxophone from Sam Gendel, plus an acoustic closing track unlike anything the band has done before, and a collection of six, intimate sonic diary entries tying everything together. 

The music of No Rules Sandy has earned praise from The New York Times, NPR Music, NME, Consequence and beyond, in addition to appearances on NPR's All Things Considered and more to be revealed soon. Since surprising the audience and announcing the album with a full performance at Newport Folk Festival, Sylvan Esso have brought the new songs to special DJ Nights in NYC and LA, sold-out arenas on the first leg of their massive summer and fall tour with ODESZA, and even the stripped-down studio of Tim Heidecker's Office Hours Live, where Meath and Sanborn played alongside a slideshow of tasteful Steely Dan photos.

In the coming months, the band will not only return to the road with ODESZA, but will make their Austin City Limits debut in an episode airing on PBS on October 15th. That same day, they will also host their second annual Psychic Hotline Block Party at North Carolina's Cat's Cradle and Artscenter, featuring a lineup of The A's, Arooj Aftab, Bartees Strange, GRRL x Made of Oak, Indigo De Souza, Joe Rainey, Joe Westerlund, Lambchop and more, in addition to a pop-up shop and record fair. Find tickets and more info here, plus all Sylvan Esso tour dates at sylvanesso.com/tour.

 

No Rules Sandy Tracklist

Moving

Look at Me

(Bad Fills)

Echo Party

How Did You Know

(Betty's, May 4, 2022)

Didn't Care

(Vegas // Dad)

Your Reality 

(#1vm)

Cloud Walker

Sunburn

(?)

Alarm

(No Rules Sandy)

Coming Back to You

 

Sylvan Esso 2022 Tour Dates

8/17 - Phoenix, AZ - Ak-Chin Pavilion*

8/19 - Austin, TX - Germania Insurance Amphitheater* SOLD OUT

8/20 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion* SOLD OUT

8/21 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion*

8/23 - Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

8/25 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion* SOLD OUT

8/26 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium* SOLD OUT

8/27 - Forest Hills, NY - Forest Hills Stadium* SOLD OUT

8/30 - Philadelphia, PA - TD Pavilion at The Mann* SOLD OUT

9/1 - Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage* 

9/2 - Montreal, QC - Parc Jean-Drapeau*

9/3 - Gilford, NH - Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion* SOLD OUT 

9/4 - Boston, MA - Xfinity Center*

9/7 - Cincinnati, OH - The ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park*

9/8 - Detroit, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre* SOLD OUT

9/9 - Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavilion* SOLD OUT

9/10 - Chicago, IL - Huntington Bank Pavilion* SOLD OUT

9/14 - St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*

9/16 - Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

9/17 - Denver, CO - Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

9/18 - Las Vegas, NV - Life is Beautiful Festival

9/20 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre*

9/22 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater*

9/23 - Vancouver, BC - PNE Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

9/24 - Vancouver, BC - PNE Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

9/26 - Bend, OR - Hayden Homes Amphitheater* SOLD OUT

9/27 - Boise, ID - Fort Idaho Center Amphitheater*

9/29 - Sacramento, CA - Heart Health Park*

9/30 - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

10/1 - San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre* SOLD OUT

10/27-30 - Live Oak, FL - Suwannee Hulaween

 

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