Sylvan Esso is a band from Durham, North Carolina. Across their

career, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn have put out four acclaimed

albums, been nominated for two GRAMMYs, and collaborated with a

wide-ranging, eclectic community of artists including Arooj Aftab,

Maggie Rogers, Tyler Childers, Reyna Tropical, Califone, and many

more.

"WDID" is the first new music from the band since 2022. The track,

as well as it's hypnotic, undulating b-side "KEEP ON," were both born

from an intense period of creation and experimentation for the band.

Meath and Sanborn have spent the last year plus working on new

material with a slew of new collaborators, recording in the lush

woods of Chapel Hill, North Carolina with no deadline in mind. The

song also marks the first time Sylvan Esso has released new music

via their own record label, Psychic Hotline.

"WDID" is a thorny, hammering all-caps screed; a manic thrum

happening halfway between a 3am doom scroll and the dance floor.

It bubbles with anxiety, the all-consuming, unending cascade of

crises. The band's off-kilter, electrified pop has always spiraled out

from a main point of tension - Meath and Sanborn have long joked

that Sylvan Esso's songwriting stems from an argument, a

push-and-pull of possibility.

The songwriting here - and across the new music in general - is

loose and vulnerable, a disparate collage scotch-taped together

yielding something that is ultimately both magical and strange, a

dyspneic, shadowy sound that shows the humans at the helm of

Sylvan Esso with a new immediacy.

"WDID" was recorded at Betty's, Sylvan Esso's studio in Chapel Hill,

North Carolina, and features additional production from Jake Luppen

(Hippo Campus, Samia). "KEEP ON" was built from a week of

improvisation with bassist Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon) and

drummer TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry).

This limited edition 12" single features a custom die-cut jacket that

can be used as a paint stencil.