Sylvan Esso are celebrating their 10-year anniversary in Durham this weekend with , a festival happening at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, featuring some of the band's favorite artists.
Fleet Foxes is headlining the first night of the festival. They released their last album "Shore" during the pandemic and have spent the last three years touring the world behind it.
Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes caught up with 深夜福利 Music's Brian Burns ahead of their appearance at Good Moon.
This is an excerpt of an edited transcript of that conversation. You can hear the full interview by clicking the LISTEN button at the top of this post.
How did you get to know Sylvan Esso?
I guess it was back in the Mountain Man days, when Amelia was doing Mountain Man more often. That was such an amazing vocal trio so even back then I loved her music.
Do you remember the first time you heard a Sylvan Esso song?
Yeah, they redid one of the Mountain Man songs and it showed me how important arrangement and production can be. Sometimes I鈥檒l get locked into a certain way of thinking about how a song needs to sound after it鈥檚 been written, and that was a great reminder that a song can really go in a thousand different directions.
The shows this weekend are happening at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. You鈥檝e played shows at just about every type of venue imaginable, where does minor league ballpark rank on the list?
Minor league ballpark seems like the perfect place to play. It鈥檚 kind of the perfect size venue. Anything bigger is too big, so it鈥檚 kind of the perfect outdoor spot for a show.
Tell us a bit about where your last record "Shore" has taken you since it was released.
It鈥檚 been awesome and kind of the most fun we鈥檝e ever had on tour. We鈥檝e been really lucky to have this awesome crew, kind of to the point where we鈥檙e just still doing shows, even though the record has been out for a long time, just because it feels good to have the crew out there. It鈥檚 fun being 鈥渢our dad鈥� and getting pizza for everybody.
Have you been anywhere for the first time on this tour?
Yeah, we鈥檝e gotten to go to some crazy places on this tour. We went to South America for the first time. We went to Jakarta. We went back to Australia. We went to Mexico City for the first time. We鈥檝e been super lucky.
is happening at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park on May 31 and June 1. The festival features performances from Sylvan Esso, Fleet Foxes, Dehd, Hippo Campus, Truth Club and Reyna Tropical.
