Sylvan Esso - Ow 8 (Exclusive Angel Of Death Purple Vinyl)

• Available September 11th, 2026.
• Ship orders including this title will be held back.

On their new album Ow 8 (pronounced "Ow Infinity"), Sylvan Esso metabolizes a life of making music with people into making art that you just love, a tactile and enveloping freefall. Written across four years in the woods in Chapel Hill, the longest the band has ever spent writing a record, it arrives with an intense immediacy. It was born from a time of experimentation and collaboration, resulting in a sinewy, punchy, explosive work where the songs want to claw their way out. A technicolor totem of personal destruction, the feeling of being pummeled to silly putty and built back into something that feels almost human, almost familiar but freakish and new - a cartoonish, slapstick grin printed across a ruin.

A large chunk of the record was born from improvisation, hours spent at their North Carolina studio finding grooves with guest collaborators including Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Matt Douglas (The Mountain Goats), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock Of Dimes), Joe Westerlund (Megafaun), Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Samia), Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon), and drummer TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry).

Exclusive ANGEL OF DEATH PURPLE vinyl produced by Psychic Hotline in 2026.

TRACKLISTING:

1. Entertainment & Coca-Cola
2. Flood Season
3. Hot Slob
4. Concrete Glen
5. Back Again
6. Ribbon
7. Sledge
8. Right to Left
9. Good at Pain
10. Jessica
11. On & On
12. Plastic Sword