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A CAREER IN GEAR Sylvan Esso

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn are Sylvan Esso, a duo recording radiant electro-pop that thrums with unrestrained emotion. Balancing the scales between all-out pop melodicism and electronic experimentation, their third album Free Love saw them move out of the box and further into modular synthesis, earning them a 2022 Grammy nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album in the process.

Though they’re reinvigorating pop music with adventurous sonic techniques, the duo are no gear snobs: they’re equally happy running an entire track through a radio transmitter and pushing Ableton’s stock plugins to their limits as they are laying down chords on a monolithic Moog Voyager XL. For our Career in Gear feature, the pair plucked five

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