You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
The band Sylvanesso has two members.
I'm Amelia Meath.
I'm Nick Sanborn.
And Amelia and Nick met while they were both working on other projects.
Amelia asked Nick to do a remix for the band she was in at the time,
and when that remix was done, they both loved how it turned out, so...
We orchestrated a meeting.
and began talking about the potential for us to make new tunes together.
They emailed song ideas back and forth for a while, until they found time to be in the same place.
She came down to North Carolina, which is where I had just moved,
while she was on a break from tour.
And it was at that point that they first started working on the song Coffee.
After we had exhausted the stuff we had already written over email,
the first stuff we were working on writing, that was one of the first beats I played for her.
We were just scrolling through beats, and I was like, that one.
Yeah, it was an old beat of mine.