Sylvan Esso’s Bandcamp picks: Kieran, Nyege Nyege, tabla and goat(·)villalobos

Sylvan Esso’s Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn handed Bandcamp a playlist that reads like a friendlier version of crate-digging: Kieran Hebden’s recent work, Nyege Nyege-linked artists and MC Yallah, South Korean collective LEENALCHI, live tabla on the Biryani Boys imprint, and a surreal goat (JP) × Ricardo Villalobos single get name-checked. The full rundown is on Bandcamp Daily.

We like this — not because it’s a celebrity playlist, but because it’s a cross-section of the community and curiosities that actually build records. Their picks point to scenes (Durham house shows, Nyege Nyege’s global ripple) and techniques (found-sound sampling, polymetric math-rock, tabla improvisation) that inform their new work. It’s a useful little atlas for anyone wondering where modern folktronica gets its weird oxygen.