Sylvan Esso Is Pulling Its Catalog From Spotify

Sylvan Esso is the latest high-flying enactment to yank their catalog from Spotify.

The two-time Grammy Award-nominated electro-pop enactment is boycotting the streaming euphony giant, confirming their determination with the announcement of their caller release, “WDID,” their archetypal successful 3 years.

Led by Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, Sylvan Esso has accumulated adjacent to 1 cardinal Spotify streams, crossed 4 full-length workplace albums, including 2020’s Free Love and 2017’s What Now, some of which were nominated for champion dance/electronic medium at the Grammys. Going forward, Sylvan Esso’s streaming footprint volition beryllium wiped.

The caller track, “WDID,” is the archetypal merchandise connected the band’s ain grounds label, Psychic Hotline, announced backmost successful 2021.

Released today, Sept. 30, “WDID” was hewn from an “intense play of instauration and experimentation” for Meath and Sanborn, reads a connection from the band, and is delivered arsenic an “abrasive, all-caps confrontation against an all-consuming cascade of crises”. It won’t, of course, beryllium disposable connected Spotify.

The caller chopped was recorded astatine Sylvan Esso’s ain studio, Betty’s, successful Chapel Hill, NC, and features further accumulation from Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Samia). Its authoritative euphony video is helmed by Aaron Anderson and Eric Timothy Carlson.

Sylvan Esso joins an exodus of artists from Spotify, galore chiding the company’s Sweden-born laminitis and CEO Daniel Ek, who reportedly invested $1 cardinal into Helsing, a defence institution that sells AI bundle to pass subject situations. A spokesperson for Helsing insists its exertion isn’t being utilized successful warfare zones extracurricular of Ukraine.

The creator revolt includes Massive Attack, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Deerhoof, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and others.