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Earlier this year,Sylvan Essos Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn took a gamble.
Those sessions would become Sylvan Essos latest album, the aptly titledNo Rules Sandy.
That is incredibly vulnerable and strange, even if you are successful.
Its also a very intimate thing not just someones creative output but their reaction to their output being received.
Some people say yes, and some people dont.
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I feel like each song is an effort to make a connection.
You reached through time and space with technology and touched somebodys fuckin shoulder, man.
But theres a sadness to it: It doesnt just belong to you.
The world is projecting onto it all of its own baggage, its own opinions, its own potential.
Not like I need that reassurance or need good reviews or anything like that.
I really feel like a little kid, like,Look what Ive made.
I still get hurt.
I tell you who I am and then I only get to update that every two to three years.
It feels like outgrowing your clothes.
Theres a mourning process to putting out records that is really not always acknowledged.
(Like, if we say queer joy, the press is going to just repeat it.)
For example, theres a song onFarm to Tablecalled Hennessy.
I want to be appreciated for my art and as a person.