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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.