Sylvan Esso

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath have been making music together since 2013, when Amelia asked Nick, a music producer and bassist, to remix her band Mountain Man’s hit single “Play It Right.” He did, and the rest is history. Sylvan Esso has always had a very sleek, electro-pop feel to their production. Amelia’s powerful voice is front and center, surrounded by harmonies and samples of her own voice. Nick’s genre-destroying bass creates intricate, pulsing grooves for Amelia’s voice to inhabit.

Now, the married couple and electronic duo have released their fourth studio album, No Rules Sandy. It’s a follow-up to the band’s Grammy-nominated 2020 album, Free Love. The new album is a mix of improvisation and experimentation. On today’s episode, Bruce Headlam speaks with Amelia and Nick about their creative process and how No Rules Sandy came to be. They also play two songs off their new album live.

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Sylvan Esso songs HERE.

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0:00.0	Here in the last archive, I've been trying to figure out what happened to Truth.
0:12.8	I've been telling stories about how we know what we know, and why it seems sometimes
0:16.7	lately is if we don't know anything at all.
0:20.0	But I am done with the problems of Truth.
0:22.2	I want solutions.
0:24.2	The season of the last archive is all about common knowledge.
0:27.4	Is that kind of knowledge still possible?
0:30.3	I tried to find out.
0:31.8	Coming soon.
0:33.8	Listen to the last archive on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get
0:38.4	your podcasts.
0:39.4	Hey, I'm Joel Stein.
0:41.7	I want you to close your eyes and imagine a pocket watch.
0:45.6	It's moving from side to side.
0:48.1	You're getting very sleepy.
0:51.4	Great.
0:52.4	Now that I've hypnotized you against your will, you're going to start liking long-form
0:55.0	journalism.
0:56.0	So much.
0:57.0	You're going to listen to a podcast where the host interviews a writer about their long-form
1:01.9	story every week.
1:02.9	I'm that host.
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