And while “Didn’t Care” exists fully as a poppy love song - the hand claps and talk of “shivers” - it’s also a song about somebody not caring when they meet their love the frizzled keyboard chords and insistent background vocals promise there’s no simple ending for this story, either. With the crank of a bicycle bell popping in over the thumping bass track, “Sunburn” conjures a summer night’s dance party even as Meath’s locked-down vocal (“My favorite way to ruin me”) suggests nothing is as carefree as it seems. “Sunburn,” the album’s debut single, and “Didn’t Care” also work as bridge songs, leaping from a pop music framework into the wilder unknown. Sanborn says that vocal, and the song itself, became a reference point for the album, “for how weird we could take it - how bare and strange something could be.” The album’s title is taken from a snippet of background vocal in “Your Reality,” a slippery, complexly layered track in which Meath sings what feels like a preoccupying question of the post-pandemic world: “Let me remember how to live my life/were there rules originally/or are we learning how to be?” As in so many previous Sylvan Esso songs Meath’s voice is direct and dominant, but the “no rules Sandy” background vocal is different - echoing and hypnotic, swooping underneath Sanborn’s percussive synth as well as a string arrangement from Gabriel Kahane. ![]() We’re not trying to fit into the mold, just happily being our freak selves.” “It feels like who we actually are,” Meath adds. ![]() Describing their first three albums as a trilogy that is now complete, Meath and Sanborn see No Rules Sandy as the beginning of a new period, with songs that are “wilder and stranger and more cathartic than the band used to be,” as Sanborn puts it. But that speed - and the resulting looseness and live-wire energy in their songs - is one of many things that feels like brand-new territory in No Rules Sandy, their fourth studio album, out August 12, 2022. Some bands can create entire albums on short-term writing jags, but until now, Meath says, Sylvan Esso was not one of them. “Pretty much every day that we did that, we got a song that we liked.” “Even if we weren’t feeling good, we would just sit down and try to make something,” Meath says. Cramming the contents of a recording studio into their Prius, Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath drove from their home in Durham, North Carolina to Los Angeles, where they set up a makeshift studio in a small rental house on the east side and did something that surprised them: they wrote a song. ![]() No refunds.Īt the beginning of 2022, Sylvan Esso packed up and headed west.
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