Sylvan Esso Release First Album in Four Years, ‘Ow ∞,’ Share “Sledge” Video
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Sylvan Esso release Ow ∞, their first full-length album in four years. The 12-track record finds Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn pushing further into the loose, experimental side of their electronic pop sound, with a bigger group of collaborators involved this time. The release also arrives with a new video for “Sledge” and a full-band tour stretching into 2027.
In a press release, Sylvan Esso’s team announced that Ow ∞ is out today, September 11, via Psychic Hotline, marking the duo’s first album in four years and their first release through their own label.
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 technicolour 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 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.
Listen to Sylvan Esso’s new album Ow ∞ below:
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 when, 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.
Watch the video for “Sledge,” one of the tracks from Sylvan Esso’s new album Ow ∞:
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 the return of their biennial Good Moon festival that takes over four venues throughout their hometown of Durham, NC, from October 8th-10th. LMB previously caught Sylvan Esso live at New Orleans’ Civic Theatre during the duo’s What Now era.
See below for upcoming dates, with tickets and more information at sylvanesso.com.
Sylvan Esso Tour Dates
2026
Sep. 12 – Abiquiu, NM – Blossoms & Bones
Sep. 20 – Brighton, UK – Resident Music (In-Store Performance)
Sep. 21 – London, UK – Rough Trade (In-Store Performance, Matinee)
Sep. 21 – London, UK – Rough Trade (In-Store Performance) SOLD OUT
Sep. 24 – London, UK – Secret Location (DJ Set)
Oct. 1 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Oct. 2 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel LOW TICKETS
Oct. 3 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel SOLD OUT
Oct. 5 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club SOLD OUT
Oct. 6 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club LOW TICKETS
Oct. 8-10 – Durham, NC – Good Moon LOW TICKETS
Oct. 12 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Oct. 14 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount LOW TICKETS
Oct. 15 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
Oct. 16 – Portland, ME – State Theatre LOW TICKETS
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 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue LOW TICKETS
Oct. 24 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue LOW TICKETS
Oct. 31-Nov. 1 – Kakegawa, JP – Festival de Frue
Dec. 5 – Memphis, TN – Raised by Sound Fest (DJ Set)
2027
Feb. 19 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
Feb. 20 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
Feb. 22 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Crystal Ballroom LOW TICKETS
Feb. 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 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre LOW TICKETS
Mar. 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 LOW TICKETS
Mar. 12 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
Mar. 13 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl
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