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Sylvan Esso was not meant to be a band. Rather, Amelia Meath had written a song called “Play It Right” and sung it with her trio Mountain Man. She’d met Nick Sanborn, an electronic producer working under the name Made of Oak, in passing on a shared bill in a small club somewhere.
A year later, their self-titled debut—a collection of vivid addictions concerning suffering and love, darkness and deliverance—arrived as a necessary pop balm, an album stuffed with songs that don’t suffer the longstanding complications of that term.