Sylvan Esso Announce No Rules Sandy

Just announced -  Sylvan Esso will release their most fearless and frenetic, intimate and enigmatic new album No Rules Sandy on 12th August 2022 via Loma Vista Recordings. After surprising the audience of Newport Folk Festival yesterday in the US, with a live performance of the project in its entirety, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn have marked the official launch and full embrace of their next, unpredictable chapter. Defined by a mentality of directness and disregard for preconceptions, Meath says that No Rules Sandy“feels like who we actually are. It just feels like us. We’re not trying to fit into the mould, just happily being our freak selves.” 

They also share new single ‘Didn’t Care’, which traces the emotional journey from a humble meeting to life-changing love, and builds on recent singles ‘Sunburn’ and ‘Your Reality’. Like much of No Rules Sandy, the song leaps from the framework of pop music into a wilder unknown, full of the loose, live-wire energy that inspired the album’s unforeseen creation.

Describing their first three albums as a trilogy that is now complete - following multiple GRAMMY nominations and countless other, crowning milestones - new album No Rules Sandy marks the beginning of a new era that is stranger and more cathartic than Meath and Sanborn have ever been. 

Sylvan Esso had never been a band who could make a record on short-term writing jags, let alone the best of their career. But at the beginning of 2022, they drove from their home of North Carolina to L.A., where they set up a makeshift studio in a small rental house and wrote a song. Then another, and another, until a full record took shape and they found themselves impressing each other like never before. 

Produced and written by Sylvan Esso, with additional recording taking place at their own studio in North Carolina, No Rules Sandy coalesces as an unbroken ribbon of sound, featuring drummer TJ Maiani, a string arrangement from Gabriel Kahane, and saxophone by Sam Gendel. No Rules Sandy’s most private moments come as interstitial diary entries, filling the spaces between tracks with voicemails from loved ones, birdsong from outside Betty’s, children and other life sounds.