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The past year was supposed to bring a much more traditional big leap forward for the band, with an ambitious new album, Free Love, and a tour to support it. But after nearly a decade as recording artists, Sylvan Esso can at least set some of their own capitalistic terms-as Meath puts it, “taking the money that we’ve made and pushing it in this direction, just to see what that does.”
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“We’re basically building a capitalistic empire while trying to figure out how to make capitalism feel better,” says Meath, fully aware of the inherent conflict there. Their contracts carry a standard line item that encourages white artists to pay 5% of their earnings as reparations. That has led to an occasionally radical approach to commerce at the artist-owned label.
Current Psychic Hotline artists include Phil Cook, the Dead Tongues, Sanborn’s Made of Oak, and Meath’s folk trio Mountain Man.
“We realized that instead of it just being like a little house for just our records, we could regift other artists owning their own work,” says Meath. Sylvan Esso may be a band of just two people, but what they’re building together now goes way beyond that. It’s upstairs in the five-bedroom house where the true shape of the future reveals itself-bunk beds and sparsely outfitted rooms, just waiting for the duffel bags and instrument cases of visiting musicians to fill the space. But do not mistake this for a utopian ideal of a creative marriage, or the kind of “relationship aspiration” that Meath will later call “truly bullshit.” Betty’s and the house were never just for the two of them. Sanborn’s been sorting cables and woodworking Meath’s listening to audio books and feeding the backyard woodpeckers with suet sourced from a local butcher and boiled down in their kitchen. The pair are back home for just a few weeks, on a planned hiatus from their Shaking Out the Numb Tour. “It’s a weird thing, but I ended up checking everything out and cleaning all of them,” he says by way of apology for the tangle. When I visit on one of the first days of proper fall weather, both Betty’s and a smaller studio space inside the house are mostly a mess of audio cables, with Sanborn midway through a reorganization project. The physical building part is actually already done-Betty’s, a freestanding studio where the electronic duo records, sits gleaming adjacent to Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn’s home in a rural spot outside of Durham, North Carolina.
Sylvan Esso is building something in those woods.
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