{"id":22215,"date":"2014-09-08T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22215"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T22:38:01","slug":"watch-new-sylvan-esso-video-for-dreamy-bruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-09\/watch-new-sylvan-esso-video-for-dreamy-bruises\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch New Sylvan Esso Video for &#8220;Dreamy Bruises&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n-650x276.jpg\" alt=\"10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n\" width=\"635\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n-650x276.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n-450x191.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10341480_603878026396232_5607456032249257088_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the best surprises of the year has been <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sylvanesso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sylvan Esso<\/strong><\/a>, the duo comprised of <strong>Mountain Man\u2019s Amelia Meath<\/strong> and <strong>Megafaun\u2019s Nick Sanborn<\/strong>.\u00a0 We have repeatedly touted <strong>Sylvan Esso&#8217;s<\/strong> eponymously-titled debut album (bound to be high on our <strong>Best Albums of 2014<\/strong> list) and its uber-catchy songs (especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-03\/watch-invigorating-new-sylvan-esso-video-for-coffee\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Coffee<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-04\/watch-sylvan-essos-new-video-for-play-it-right\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Play It Right<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-06\/watch-sylvan-esso-perform-hey-mami-unplugged-on-a-rooftop\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Hey Mami<\/strong><\/em><\/a>).\u00a0 The duo make an infectious and ebullient blend of electronic folk-pop music that deserves a much wider audience.\u00a0 Today they dropped their official video for the comparatively-brooding track <em><strong>Dreamy Bruises<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The video&#8217;s a trickster, beginning ominously and foreboding, but naturally (for these two) ending in light and lights.\u00a0 Nicely done.\u00a0 Watch it below, and then pick up their album on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partisanrecords.com\/artists\/sylvan-esso\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Partisan Records<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s lyrics follow the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B5JZNWxBBMA\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ohio small road<br \/>\ncolored lights in the night<br \/>\nfind some hand to hold<br \/>\nlet the car coast with no lights<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\nmoon in the window and no girls on the floor<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\ndudes are wrapped around each other drinking and the sweat is fallin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\njumped across a river I don&#8217;t know where to go<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\nits the smallest water pile dreamy bruises<br \/>\nrotten lovers<\/p>\n<p>will it say I want you<br \/>\nto see all the ways I care<br \/>\nto see how a skin so smooth<br \/>\nto see how my blood runs blue<\/p>\n<p>pull at the hand that moves you<br \/>\n&#8217;tis the heart beat don&#8217;t fight<br \/>\nlet your limbs flare in the mood<br \/>\nlike you&#8217;re a wild thing through the night<\/p>\n<p>and how can we question<br \/>\nwhat we know feels right<br \/>\nblack eyes turn to marigolds<br \/>\nin the morning light<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\nshakin&#8217; all the water off like dogs at the pool<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\nthey&#8217;re kickin&#8217; all the records over actin&#8217; like they hanging water<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\ndown in the basement where the sun don&#8217;t show<\/p>\n<p>ohweeohweeoh kids move so slow<br \/>\nnaked dollars wonder piles dreamy bruises rotten lovers<\/p>\n<p>will it say I want you<br \/>\nto bend me back two<br \/>\nto make me sing your tune<br \/>\nto make those words so smooth<\/p>\n<p>fill me like a song do 8x<\/p>\n<p>fill me like a song do<br \/>\n(ohweeohweeoh)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best surprises of the year has been Sylvan Esso, the duo comprised of Mountain Man\u2019s Amelia Meath and Megafaun\u2019s Nick Sanborn.\u00a0 We have repeatedly touted Sylvan Esso&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}