It’s a big day in the land of Sylvan Esso, as the duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn are back with their first new song in more than three years. Notably, “WDID” marks the first single the band has released on their own label, Psychic Hotline. The song is also the first they’ve released that isn’t getting dumped into Spotify’s streaming trough, as Sylvan Esso have removed their catalog from the platform.
The new track serves as a powerful introduction to the band’s Spotify-free era. The cut features grimy synths and gut-punching bass, both of which serve as a proper background for Meath’s defiant, unrelenting vocal performance. “As we prepare to release new music, we have to decide what we want to be a part of and what we don’t,” the band shared. “To that end, with Sylvan Esso being on our own label for the first time, we have decided to remove our music from Spotify. While no solution is perfect, we simply can’t continue to put our life’s work in a store that, in addition to all its other glaring flaws, directly funds war machines.”
Check out “WDID” below, and pre-order the physical edition of the release here.
