Kevin Bronson on April 13th, 2015

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Who: Sylvan Esso in the Mojave Tent
In 3 or Fewer Words: Dances with structure.
Memorable Because: Amelia Randall Meath and Nicholas Sanborn are like those nice graduate students who live next door. You invite them for dinner, they offer to play you some of their music and you don’t know whether to dance or cry. The North Carolina synth-pop duo held a jam-packed Mojave tent rapt for 45 minutes with their intricate, dark but minimalist tunes, doing so without any extravagant stage show beyond Meath’s weird moves, which were something in between interpretive dance and slow-motion aerobics. Oh, and there were her gold sparking platform boots, kicked toward the audience every so often. If there’s such a thing as ISP (Intelligent Synth-Pop), Sylvan Esso is it, and their most memorable song “Coffee” went over well with a still-caffeinated late-afternoon crowd.
What I’d Tell My Friends Who Were at Charles Bradley: Listen to the old souls.
— K.B. (Photos by Bronson)

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