Sylvan Esso - No Rules Sandy (Cassette)At the beginning of 2022, Sylvan Esso packed up and headed west. 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. And then another. Even if we werent feeling good, we would just sit down and try to make

Diaz and Reyna immersed themselves in a tropical journey guided by the music—from Cartagena

he thought that “Prudência” was some old classic that she had dug up to bring back to light

2017’s Recomeçar

but the emotional and relational context in which they were made

as adulthood encroached

The lacquer for this release was cut by acclaimed mastering engineer Kevin Gray and pressed by Citizen Vinyl in Asheville

capturing the hearts of a worldwide audience

There are collaborations that feel engineered

channeling that easy

Not right now

Photo by: Graham Tolbert

or selected covers