Amelia Meath

Amelia Randall Meath (born July 2, 1988) is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and dancer who is a member of the musical groups Sylvan Esso and Mountain Man.

[1] Meath formed folk trio Mountain Man alongside Molly Sarlé and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig in 2010, while all three were students at Bennington College.

The trio also maintains the recurring Mountain Man Sings... singles series, in which they have covered John Denver,[4] Neil Young,[5] Kacey Musgraves,[6] and more.

[9] The duo's self-titled 2014 debut paired Meath's "secretive, intimate" songwriting with Sanborn's propulsive and sticky production, and they found immediate success; they were quickly selling out clubs around the country and booking major festivals like Bonnaroo, Firefly, and Austin City Limits.

[13] In the expanded band, Meath and Sanborn were joined by Meg Duffy, Molly Sarlé, Daughter of Swords, Jenn Wasner, Dev Gupta, Adam Schatz, Matt McCaughan, and Joe Westerlund.

"[15] Following their concert stream series FROM THE SATELLITE, on December 2, 2020, Sylvan Esso surprise-released WITH LOVE, a 10-piece "dream team" band featuring most of the players from WITH.

[18] In 2020, Meath performed as the guest vocalist on Local Natives' "Dark Days" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!,[19] and then wrote a new verse for the track while collaborating with the band on a new studio version.

Local Natives explained: “Despite the looming anxiety of those final pre-quarantine days, that [Kimmel] felt especially cathartic for us and was made all the more poignant by having Amelia on stage with us.

She not only lent us her incredible voice but she wrote a beautiful new verse that taps into the nostalgia and the longing we all feel for a different time.”[20] In 2022, Meath and Mountain Man bandmate Sauser-Monnig formed The A's, who released their debut album, Fruit, in July 2022.