One of the best surprises of the year has been Sylvan Esso, the duo comprised of Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath and Megafaun’s Nick Sanborn.  We have repeatedly touted Sylvan Esso’s eponymously-titled debut album (bound to be high on our Best Albums of 2014 list) and its uber-catchy songs (especially Coffee, Play It Right, and Hey Mami).  The duo make an infectious and ebullient blend of electronic folk-pop music that deserves a much wider audience.  Today they dropped their official video for the comparatively-brooding track Dreamy Bruises.  The video’s a trickster, beginning ominously and foreboding, but naturally (for these two) ending in light and lights.  Nicely done.  Watch it below, and then pick up their album on Partisan Records.  The song’s lyrics follow the video.

“Ohio small road
colored lights in the night
find some hand to hold
let the car coast with no lights

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
moon in the window and no girls on the floor

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
dudes are wrapped around each other drinking and the sweat is fallin’

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
jumped across a river I don’t know where to go

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
its the smallest water pile dreamy bruises
rotten lovers

will it say I want you
to see all the ways I care
to see how a skin so smooth
to see how my blood runs blue

pull at the hand that moves you
’tis the heart beat don’t fight
let your limbs flare in the mood
like you’re a wild thing through the night

and how can we question
what we know feels right
black eyes turn to marigolds
in the morning light

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
shakin’ all the water off like dogs at the pool

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
they’re kickin’ all the records over actin’ like they hanging water

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
down in the basement where the sun don’t show

ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow
naked dollars wonder piles dreamy bruises rotten lovers

will it say I want you
to bend me back two
to make me sing your tune
to make those words so smooth

fill me like a song do 8x

fill me like a song do
(ohweeohweeoh)”