Music For Ants — This year, I welcomed a new member to our family (named Esme, like the Joanna Newsom song), worried a lot about the future of my country, and listened to a lot of music, new & old. These are my favorite albums & songs of 2017. Click here to listen to... more info

DrownedInSound — One to download if you need a little pre-Christmas pick-me-up more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, the folky North Carolina dance-pop duo Sylvan Esso came out with What Now , their sophomore album. And today, they followed it up with a brand-new single called "There Are Many Ways To Say I Love You." There are no dance beats on ... more info

Nialler9 — Tuesday November 14 TeaParty VIII – Tea With Mix & Fairbanks @ Wah Wah Club (€6+, 10:30pm) a night of jacking house and electronic disco. Sylvan Esso @ Tivoli Theatre (Sold Out) Slave to the radio. US electro-pop duo. Support from Bayon... more info

KEXP Seattle — The last time I saw Sylvan Esso was over two years ago, in a much smaller room about 2,500 miles away. It was a cold January night in Charlotte, North Carolina (my hometown), about three hours outside of Sylvan Esso’s hometown of Durham. It wa... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — All photos by Dana Pacifico Sylvan Esso have been touring non-stop this year in support of their new album What Now which was released earlier this year via Loma Vista Recordings. We last caught them in May during their sold out two-night run at B... more info

Stereogum — Days Have No Numbers is a new all-inclusive "concert vacation" that will take place in January 2018 (1/21 - 1/25) at the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico. It features three separate sets from Bon Iver, and performances by Sylvan Esso, POLIÇA,... more info

Stereogum — When Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn first teamed up as Sylvan Esso -- she of the Appalachian vocal group Mountain Man, he of the weirdo folk-rock project Megafaun -- this was the hook: Here are two indie Americana musicians from North Carolina trying ... more info

Stereogum — Earlier this year, Sylvan Esso released their sophomore album, What Now , and today they've shared a video for "The Glow," a track from it that was (at least partially) inspired by the Microphones album of the same name. (Choice lyrics: "Walking bac... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — Sylvan Esso, the Durham, North Carolina indie-pop duo of Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn returned this year to released their sophomore record What Now (via Loma Vista Recordings). The new record brought them back to New York for a pair of sold out sho... more info