Sylvan Esso announce EU/UK headline tour dates for January and February 2027
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Today, Sylvan Esso have announced details of an EU/UK tour for Jan/Feb 2027. The dates, which celebrate the release of their widely acclaimed new album Ow ∞, will see them headline Troxy in London and Albert Hall in Manchester alongside a slew of European dates. The shows will take place ahead of an extensive run of US dates set to take place throughout Feb and March.
Tickets will go sale at 10am local time on Friday 16th Oct here.
Routing is as follows:
26th Jan - National Stadium - Dublin, Ireland
28th Jan - Albert Hall - Manchester, United Kingdom
29th Jan - Troxy - London, United Kingdom
31st Jan - Le Cabaret Sauvage - Paris, France
1st Feb - Paradiso - Amsterdam, Netherlands
3rd Feb - Astra Kulturhaus - Berlin, Germany
Guestlist available upon request
Ow ∞ marks Sylvan Esso's first new album in four years, and first to be released on their own record label, Psychic Hotline. Named one of the buzziest projects The New York Times is looking forward to this autumn, Ow ∞ is a trust fall into our dystopian present, past and future – arms wide open, embracing and absorbing the pain of cities under water or on fire, and piecing oneself back together as a tactile, scotch-taped collage of memories, ephemera, Y2K-era burned CDs and backseat makeouts. Produced by Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, and bringing together 12 of their most collaborative, improvisational and experimental songs to date, Ow ∞ marks the longest the band has ever spent writing a record, but arrives with an intense immediacy that is messy, hellish and free, metabolising a life of making music with people into making art that you just love.
Listen to Ow ∞ on vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally via Psychic Hotline – further illustrated through an immersive world of animated characters and iconography by artist Eric Timothy Carlson – and watch the new video for ‘Sledge,’ written in the shadow of Hurricane Helene and the Los Angeles fires, as it channels apocalyptic anxiety into a fierce affirmation of destruction, control and surrender.
Created, reimagined and revisited nearly every day since 2022, in the woods of their studio Betty's in Chapel Hill, NC, Ow ∞ is both a technicolour totem of personal destruction, and an ecstatic invitation to party. From highlights like ‘Hot Slob’ to ‘Concrete Glen’ and ‘On & On,’ Most of the tracks on Ow ∞are Meath's first vocal takes, while arrangements and ideas are excavated, painted over and held together by the largest community of musicians Sylvan Esso have ever worked with on an LP. Featuring six different drummers in total, as well as live guitar, bass, keys, vibraphone, woodwinds, Innato, organ, piano and electronics, Meath and Sanborn are joined by Daniel Aged (Frank Ocean, Dijon), BJ Burton (Bon Iver, Charli XCX), Matt Douglas (the Mountain Goats), Glenn Kotche (Wilco), Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus, Samia), TJ Maiani (Weyes Blood, Neneh Cherry), James Mapley-Brittle (GRRL), Buddy Ross (Frank Ocean, Bon Iver), Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) and Joe Westerlund (Megafaun) throughout the record, filling hard drives with 5-10 songs at a time, some sticking and some not.
But for an album that wrestles so much with the out-of-control nature of being alive, Ow ∞ meets Meath and Sanborn at a time where, finally, they have complete control over what Sylvan Esso can be: putting things out the way they want to, with the people they choose, in their own studio and through their own label.
Full Sylvan Esso tour dates
Oct 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount LOW TICKETS
Oct 15 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
Oct 16 - Portland, ME - State Theatre LOW TICKETS
Oct 17 - Boston, MA - Citizens House of Blues
Oct 19 - Toronto, ON - HISTORY
Oct 21 - Milwaukee, WI - Riverside Theater
Oct 22 - Chicago, IL - The Salt Shed Indoors
Oct 23 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue LOW TICKETS
Oct 24 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue LOW TICKETS
Oct 31-Nov 1 - Kakegawa, JP - Festival de Frue
Dec 5 - Memphis, TN - Raised by Sound Fest (DJ Set)
Jan 26 - Dublin, Ireland - National Stadium
Jan 28 - Manchester, United Kingdom - Albert Hall
Jan 29 - London, United Kingdom - Troxy
Jan 31 - Paris, France - Le Cabaret Sauvage
Feb 1 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso
Feb 3 - Berlin, Germany - Astra Kulturhaus
Feb 19 - Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
Feb 20 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre
Feb 22 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom LOW TICKETS
Feb 23 - Portland, OR - McMenamins Crystal Ballroom
Feb 25 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater
Feb 26 - Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern
Feb 27 - Santa Ana, CA – Observatory
Mar 1 - Del Mar, CA - The Sound
Mar 2 - Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren
Mar 4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Rockwell at the Complex
Mar 5 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre LOW TICKETS
Mar 6 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
Mar 8 - Austin, TX - ACL Live at The Moody Theater
Mar 9 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
Mar 11 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina’s LOW TICKETS
Mar 12 - Birmingham, AL - Iron City
Mar 13 - Nashville, TN - Brooklyn Bowl
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