Sylvan Esso

DURHAM, NC – September 11, 2026: Today, Sylvan Esso release Ow ∞: their first new album in four years, and first to be released on their own record label, Psychic Hotline. Named one of the buzziest projects TheNew York Times is looking forward to this fall, Ow ∞ is a 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.

Produced by Sylvan Esso's Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, and bringing together 12 of their most collaborative, improvisational and experimental songs to date, Ow ∞ marks the longest the band hasever 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.Listen to Ow ∞ on vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally via Psychic Hotline – further illustrated through an immersive world of animated characters and iconography by artist Eric Timothy Carlson – and watch the new video for "Sledge," written in the shadow of Hurricane Helene and the Los Angeles fires, as it channels apocalyptic anxiety into a fierce affirmation of destruction, control and surrender.

Created, reimagined and revisited nearly every day since 2022, in the woods of their studio Betty's in ChapelHill, NC, Ow ∞ is both a technicolor totem of personal destruction, and an ecstatic invitation to party. From highlights like "Hot Slob" to "Concrete Glen" and "On & On," most of the tracks on Ow ∞ are Meath's firstvocal 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.

For an album that wrestles so much with the out-of-control nature of being alive, Ow ∞meets Meath and San born 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.Following a cross-country Road Trip and global series of Hi-Fi Listening Parties earlier this month, Sylvan Esso will bring the music of Ow ∞ to a full-band tour spanning more than two dozen shows across North America and beyond in 2026 and 2027, in addition to return of their biennial Good Moon festival that takes over four venues throughout their hometown of Durham, NC, from October 8th-10th. See below for upcoming dates, with tickets and more information at sylvanesso.com.

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