Sylvan Esso Find Heaven On Latest Single, "On & On"

Sylvan Esso Find Heaven On Latest Single, "On & On"

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New Album Ow ∞ Arrives September 11 via Psychic Hotline

Global Hi-Fi Listening Parties Set For September 3, US Road Trip Previews Full Band Tour & Good Moon Festival's Return This Fall

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DURHAM, NC – August 25, 2026: On September 11th, Sylvan Esso will release Ow ∞, their first new album in four years and first to be released on their own, on their own record label, Psychic Hotline. Bringing together 12 of the band's most collaborative, improvisational and experimental songs to date, Ow ∞ is trust fall into our dystopian present, past and future: arms wide open, embracing and absorbing the pain of cities under water or on fire, and piecing oneself back together as a tactile, scotch-taped collage of memories, ephemera, Y2K-era burned CDs and backseat makeouts.

On new single "On & On," the album's third preview out today, Sylvan Esso seek to find heaven in everyday moments, sharing their own tender reflection on resiliency and fleeting transcendence. Alongside Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, the track features Daniel Aged (bass), Glenn Kotche (drums, percussion), Jake Luppen (guitar), TJ Maiani (drums) and Jenn Wasner (bass, guitar, percussion), with additional production by James Mapley-Brittle, pairing a bubbling, layered scape of sound with intimate meditations on love, recollection and the search for peace amid life's trash, noise and chaos. 

Pre-order Ow ∞, listen to "On & On" via Psychic Hotline, and leap into the waves in the video by Aaron Anderson, Eric Timothy Carlson and Sylvan Esso: HERE

Produced by Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, Ow ∞ marks the longest the band has ever spent writing a record, but arrives with an intense immediacy that is messy, hellish and free, metabolizing a life of making music with people into making art that you just love. Created, reimagined and revisited nearly every day since 2022, in the woods of their studio Betty's in Chapel Hill, NC, Ow ∞ is both a technicolor totem of personal destruction, and an ecstatic invitation to party – like recent singles "Hot Slob"(hailed by The New York Times as "an infectious and defiant ode to living messily") and the Sigur Rós-sampling "Concrete Glen" (which NPR Music called "one of the best Sylvan Esso songs I've ever heard"). 

Most of the tracks on Ow ∞ are Meath's first vocal takes, while arrangements and ideas are excavated, painted over and held together by the largest community of musicians Sylvan Esso have ever worked with on an LP. Featuring six different drummers in total, as well as live guitar, bass, keys, vibraphone, woodwinds, Innato, organ, piano and electronics, Meath and Sanborn are joined by Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon), BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Charli XCX), Matt Douglas (the Mountain Goats), Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Samia), TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry), James Mapley-Brittle (GRRL), Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean, Bon Iver), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) and Joe Westerlund (Megafaun) throughout the record, filling hard drives with 5-10 songs at a time, some sticking and some not. 

But for an album that wrestles so much with the out-of-control nature of being alive, Ow ∞meets Meath and Sanborn at a time where, finally, they have complete control over what Sylvan Esso can be: putting things out the way they want to, with the people they choose, in their own studio and through their own label. 

Ahead of the release of Ow ∞, fans can experience an early listen to the record in full at a series of free, all ages Hi-Fi Listening Parties around the globe on September 3rd, as well as a special Road Trip that Sylvan Esso are taking across the US this month and next. Find the list of all locations and details at sylvanesso.com.

Following the release of Ow ∞, Sylvan Esso will bring the music to a full-band tourspanning more than two dozen shows across North America and beyond in 2026 and 2027, in addition to return of their biennial Good Moon festival, taking over four venues throughout their hometown of Durham, NC, from October 8th-10th. Find tickets and more information at sylvanesso.com.

Ow ∞ Album Art by Eric Timothy Carlson

Ow ∞ Listening Parties | September 3rd, 2026

Mexico City - 99Recs (Roma)

Taipei - Chao Bar Record Store

Tokyo - IPPEN

Dublin - The Big Romance

London - Cafe 1001

Berlin - Unkompress

San Diego - Part Time Lover

Los Angeles - ISC HQ

New York - Mr. Melo

Chicago - Parachute

Philadelphia - Percy Sound Lounge

Denver - ESP Hi-Fi

Portland - Daydream

Austin - Equipment Room

Dallas - Shyboy Hi-Fi

Omaha - Oto Hi-Fi Lounge

West Palm Beach - Rust & Wax



Sylvan Esso Road Trip Dates

Aug 28 - Philadelphia, PA - Echo Echo | 6pm

Aug 29 - Washington, DC - Byrdland Records | 6pm

Sep 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere Chatroom | 7pm

Sep 6 - Asheville, NC - Harvest Records | 2:30pm

Sep 9 - Durham, NC - Psychic Hotline Mailroom | 5pm



Sylvan Esso Tour Dates

Sep 3 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (DJ Set w/ Special Guests)

Sep 12 - Abiquiu, NM - Blossoms & Bones

Sept 20 - Brighton, UK - Resident Music (In-Store Performance)

Sept 21 - London, UK - Rough Trade (In-Store Performance, Matinee)

Sept 21 - London, UK - Rough Trade (In-Store Performance)

Oct 1 - Atlanta, GA - The Eastern

Oct 2-3 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel

Oct 5-6 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

Oct 8-10 - Durham, NC - Good Moon

Oct 12 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall

Oct 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount

Oct 15 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall

Oct 16 - Portland, ME - State Theatre

Oct 17 - Boston, MA - Citizens House of Blues

Oct 19 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY

Oct 21 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater

Oct 22 - Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed Indoors

Oct 23-24 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue

Oct 31-Nov 1 - Kakegawa, JP - Festival de Frue

Feb 19 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre

Feb 20 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre

Feb 22-23 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom

Feb 25 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater

Feb 26 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern

Feb 27 - Santa Ana, CA - Observatory

Mar 1 - Del Mar, CA - The Sound

Mar 2 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren

Mar 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rockwell at the Complex

Mar 5-6 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

Mar 8 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater

Mar 9 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues

Mar 11 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's

Mar 12 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City

Mar 13 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl



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