{"id":24512,"date":"2015-08-25T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24512"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:02:30","slug":"listen-to-sylvan-essos-scintillating-new-jamies-song-as-inspired-by-radiolabs-bipolar-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-08\/listen-to-sylvan-essos-scintillating-new-jamies-song-as-inspired-by-radiolabs-bipolar-episode\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Sylvan Esso&#8217;s Scintillating New \u201cJamie\u2019s Song\u201d as Inspired By Radiolab&#8217;s Bipolar Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso-650x459.jpg\" alt=\"sylvan esso\" width=\"635\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso-650x459.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso-450x318.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sylvan-esso.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve loved everything we&#8217;ve heard from synth-pop duo\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvanesso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvan Esso<\/a><\/strong> ever since <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/piqued fans\u2019 interest when they shared a mysterious teaser of new music and a date (more information on that later today), but the Durham, North Carolina, folk-pop duo composed a brand new song for the most recent episode of WNYC\u2019s science podcast, Radiolab. The twinkling track, \u201cJamie\u2019s Song,\u201d was inspired by the episode\u2019s first story, a first-person account of living with and treating bipolar disorder. The track is fittingly cerebral, and smoothly dances between haunting and invigorating, drawing many of its lyrics from quotes from the story itself. Listen to \u201cJamie\u2019s Song\u201d starting about 22:50 into the episode, and listen to the whole hour if you want to hear some cool stories about the elements and science.\" target=\"_blank\">we first featured them in January 2014<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve heard any new music from the them, but they have yet another slice of pop-perfection in the fantastic new <em><strong>Jamie\u2019s Song<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0featured in a recent episode of the cool podcast, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/story\/elements\/?.com\" target=\"_blank\">Radiolab<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0The song is an homage to the first story of the\u00a0<strong>Radiolab<\/strong> episode. \u00a0Said story is a first-person account by<strong> Jamie Lowe<\/strong>\u00a0about what it&#8217;s like to live through the bipolar disorder. The song pushes all the buttons we&#8217;ve come to expect to be pushed by a <strong>Sylvan Esso<\/strong> track&#8211;startlingly grabbing melody, rhythmic throw-down, lyric-immediacy, etc. \u00a0Bravo!<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to <em><strong>Jamie\u2019s Song<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0by moving the bar below over to the <strong>22:51 <\/strong>mark in the episode below. \u00a0A great new track from <strong>Sylvan Esso<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the duo&#8217;s new song, member\u00a0<strong>Nick Sanborn<\/strong> is releasing his debut <strong><a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madeofoakmusic\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=1567333320191916\">Made of Oak<\/a><\/strong> EP, <em><strong>Penumbra<\/strong><\/em>, on November 6, 2015. \u00a0More info including a trailer, album cover, track list, tour dates and more can be found <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UVyqGtFRqm\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/radiolab\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F524435%2F\" width=\"300\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve loved everything we&#8217;ve heard from synth-pop duo\u00a0Sylvan Esso ever since we first featured them in January 2014. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve heard any new music from the them, but they have yet another slice of pop-perfection in the fantastic new Jamie\u2019s Song\u00a0featured in a recent episode of the cool podcast, Radiolab. \u00a0The [&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-24512","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\/24512","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=24512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24517,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24512\/revisions\/24517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}