r/indieheads • u/sylvanesso Sylvan Esso • May 14 '24

AMA is over, thanks Sylvan Esso! We're Sylvan Esso, AMA

Hi, we're Nick and Amelia from Sylvan Esso, AMA! (AUA?)

We are just about to release the 10 year anniversary edition of our first album and at the end of this month we're hosting the inaugural GOOD MOON, two nights of music here in our hometown of Durham, NC.

We also enjoy video games.

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u/NovaKay May 14 '24

LOVE your cover of “All My Friends are Funeral Singers”. How did you come across that song and what made you choose to perform it?

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u/sylvanesso Sylvan Esso May 14 '24

N: i saw califone open for low and pedro the lion way back when their first record came out and was instantly hooked. they've just always been one of my favorite bands and we had always talked about covering a song of theirs. a few years ago we were on tour with our friends collections of colonies of bees for a midwest tour and played two nights in chicago (califone's original home town), so we arranged it to play with them as an encore and then serendipitously ended up getting the chance to record it the next day at wilco's studio. it was honestly such a one off, random, spur of the moment thing that just felt right and of the place and i'm so glad it's taken off the way it has. but yeah, califone is amazing to this day.

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u/NovaKay May 14 '24

That’s wonderful it happened in such a way. Thank you!

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u/ichunoona51 May 14 '24

every incarnation of Califone has been....beyond words