Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso - 10 Year Anniversary Edition

Recorded in a little bedroom studio out in Durham, North

Carolina, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn's debut LP as

Sylvan Esso arrived in 2014 at the juncture of pop and

experimental. Even now, years later, the LP remains an

urgent and fitting introduction to a push-and-pull that would

go on to inform the duo's sound - a thoughtful headiness

that also wants you to get out on the dance floor. A blend of

analog and digital, Meath and Sanborn were two

unexpected puzzle pieces fitting together with singular

ease, producing a ten-track LP that was both minimalist and

shimmering, with dark undulations rippling beneath the

synthy-surface and crystalline quality of Meath's voice.

Before all of the international touring and festival headlining

and critical acclaim and Grammy nominations, Sylvan Esso

was just a shot-in-the dark of musical chemistry gone right.

The original album bio for the self-titled presciently sets the

stage for the thesis that has gone on to guide Meath and

Sanborn's writing since then: "a collection of vivid

addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and

deliverance" arriving as "a necessary pop balm, an album

stuffed with songs that don't suffer the longstanding

complications of that term." And so, even as the band

continues to evolve and becomes amorphous, there's still

that argument about what pop can be at it's core. This is just

the beginning of that conversation captured on tape.

In honor of the record's ten year anniversary, North

Carolina-based indie label Psychic Hotline will release a

deluxe reissue, complete with previously unreleased

material. Featuring essential singles "Coffee", "Hey Mami,"

and "H.S.K.T.", the expanded edition also includes remixes

from J Rocc, Rick Wade, Helado Negro, Dntel, and more.

The deluxe 2LP package sports an all-over foil inversion of

the original album's iconic foil "SE" logo.