You're listening to song exploder where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh her way.

This episode contains explicit language.

The band Silvan S.O. has two members. I'm Amelia Meeth. I'm Nick Sandborn and Amelia and Nick met while they were both working on other projects.

Amelia asked Nick to do a remix for the band she was in at the time and when that remix was done, they both loved how it turned out.

We orchestrated a meeting and began talking about the potential for us to make new tunes together.

They emailed song ideas back and forth for a while until they found time to be in the same place.

She came down to North Carolina which is where I had just moved while she was on a break from tour and it was at that point that they first started working on the song Coffee.

It's a dance we know the most.

The ball.

After we had exhausted this stuff, we had already written over an email. The first stuff we were working on writing, that was one of the first beats I played for.

We were just scrolling through beats and I was like, that one.

Yeah, it was an old beat of mine.

Yeah, and I got attached to it because of the beautiful, the bell noises in it.

You know the company Little Tykes, they make toys for kids. They had a xylophone toy that you didn't hit with a stick. It was like, had piano keys.

So that's me playing that.

I love all sorts of stuff like that where you can really hear the functioning of the instrument.

The sound the key makes is like 90% of why I love it. You hear all the clacking of your fingers moving over these crappy plastic keys.

I love that little thing.

But I remember when I initially heard the beat, it sounded like someone playing a little Tykes keyboard underwater.

Like there was something ghostly and sad about it and quiet.

We put it on my phone and I went out under the porch and I think I wrote most of it.

Right then.

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