Sylvan Esso is a band from Durham, North Carolina. Across their career, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn have put out four acclaimedalbums, been nominated for two GRAMMYs, and collaborated with awide-ranging, eclectic community of artists including Arooj Aftab,Maggie Rogers, Tyler Childers, Reyna Tropical, Califone, and manymore."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 bornfrom an intense period of creation and experimentation for the band.Meath and Sanborn have spent the last year plus working on newmaterial with a slew of new collaborators, recording in the lushwoods of Chapel Hill, North Carolina with no deadline in mind. Thesong also marks the first time Sylvan Esso has released new musicvia their own record label, Psychic Hotline."WDID" is a thorny, hammering all-caps screed; a manic thrumhappening halfway between a 3am doom scroll and the dance floor.It bubbles with anxiety, the all-consuming, unending cascade ofcrises. The band's off-kilter, electrified pop has always spiraled outfrom a main point of tension - Meath and Sanborn have long jokedthat Sylvan Esso's songwriting stems from an argument, apush-and-pull of possibility.The songwriting here - and across the new music in general - isloose and vulnerable, a disparate collage scotch-taped togetheryielding something that is ultimately both magical and strange, adyspneic, shadowy sound that shows the humans at the helm ofSylvan 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 ofimprovisation with bassist Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon) anddrummer TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry).This limited edition 12" single features a custom die-cut jacket thatcan be used as a paint stencil.
