San Fermin
San Fermin is an American indie rock collective, led by Brooklyn-based comp… Read Full Bio ↴San Fermin is an American indie rock collective, led by Brooklyn-based composer and songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone. They released their self-titled debut album on Downtown Records on September 17, 2013. Their second album Jackrabbit was released on April 21, 2015. Their third album Belong was released on April 7, 2017.
A pastiche of post-rock, chamber-pop and contemporary classical composition, the self-titled debut album is strongly influenced by Ludwig-Leone's background in classical music, which includes a job assisting composer/arranger Nico Muhly.
After finishing his musical studies at Yale, Ludwig-Leone wrote the album in six weeks while holed up in a studio on the mountainous border between Alberta and British Columbia. He focused on lifeʼs top-shelf issues – youth, nostalgia, anxiety, unrequited love – and tied these vast themes to different characters through vocal contributions from longtime friend Allen Tate, as well as Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius.
The first track released from the album, Sonsick, tackles many of these larger themes head-on. ”It’s like a panic attack disguised as a birthday party,” Ludwig-Leone says. ”I realized that the most intense moments are the ones in which conflicting emotional worlds exist inside you, equally, at once.”
San Fermin is not an album of singles but rather a sweeping, full-bodied listen with multiple distinct peaks and ambitious thematic connections. Ludwig-Leone composed all of the album’s arrangements and lyrics in full prior to collaborating and recording, noting that “writing for a large group of unknown musicians infused the writing process with a kind of operatic scope.
Since then, the band has coalesced into a core of eight members in addition to Ludwig-Leone: Allen Tate and Rae Cassidy, lead vocals; Eliza Bagg and Rebekah Durham, vocals/violin; John Brandon, trumpet; Stephen Chen, saxophone; Tyler McDiarmid, guitar; and Mike Hanf, drums.
A pastiche of post-rock, chamber-pop and contemporary classical composition, the self-titled debut album is strongly influenced by Ludwig-Leone's background in classical music, which includes a job assisting composer/arranger Nico Muhly.
After finishing his musical studies at Yale, Ludwig-Leone wrote the album in six weeks while holed up in a studio on the mountainous border between Alberta and British Columbia. He focused on lifeʼs top-shelf issues – youth, nostalgia, anxiety, unrequited love – and tied these vast themes to different characters through vocal contributions from longtime friend Allen Tate, as well as Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius.
The first track released from the album, Sonsick, tackles many of these larger themes head-on. ”It’s like a panic attack disguised as a birthday party,” Ludwig-Leone says. ”I realized that the most intense moments are the ones in which conflicting emotional worlds exist inside you, equally, at once.”
San Fermin is not an album of singles but rather a sweeping, full-bodied listen with multiple distinct peaks and ambitious thematic connections. Ludwig-Leone composed all of the album’s arrangements and lyrics in full prior to collaborating and recording, noting that “writing for a large group of unknown musicians infused the writing process with a kind of operatic scope.
Since then, the band has coalesced into a core of eight members in addition to Ludwig-Leone: Allen Tate and Rae Cassidy, lead vocals; Eliza Bagg and Rebekah Durham, vocals/violin; John Brandon, trumpet; Stephen Chen, saxophone; Tyler McDiarmid, guitar; and Mike Hanf, drums.
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San Fermin Lyrics
Altogether Changed I am altogether changed I am altogether changed Altogether…
Astronaut In the bedroom, I see it Asleep in your dress, you're…
At Night True Love Please come wake me up I'm all alone I will find…
August Oh I I can′t speak Oh I I can't breathe When the voices come…
Bar Well we followed you like children with our candy and…
Belong Honey, I belong to you I am attached to your skin I…
Berkley Bridge On the way to piano lessons Mother drives the car You and…
Bride Roses in my hair Roses in the yard I can see the…
Cairo You restless son You ribbon winner Did everything so they co…
Casanova Who are you, Love, and where have you been? Do you…
Crueler Kind I wouldn't worry Your melodramas are embarrassing My cri…
Daedalus I saw it all Happened on the golden sheets In the morning …
Do Less Can we take a moment Before we start again Why must we…
Emily It's never enough in the moment No matter who I go…
In Waiting I am waiting I am waiting I am waiting (I am waiting)…
Jackrabbit I can tell you how the story goes If I die,…
Ladies Mary Oh god, my spirit is in trouble I think want to…
Lament for V.G. Oh darling I Ooh...…
Little Star You, summers is in your bedroom Made yourself a kingdom Imag…
Methuselah Pass a message to you and your lover Like a dirty…
No Devil Wanted to be where the good girls go Left and drove…
No Promises Hey, honey, are you giving up? Hey, honey, you look a…
Oh Darling Oh, darling, I've been so miseraAnnotateble I can't describe…
Parasites These little hands are parasites Get in there and hang on…
Philosopher When I grow up, I think that I can be…
Renaissance! A renaissance, another day To tiptoe on the balustrade Get…
Run Away With Me You're stuck in my head Stuck on my heart Stuck in my…
Saints Thinking back on all my friends Years and years of birthday…
Sonsick I found me a hopeless case, and resolve to love Maybe…
Swamp Song Did they call you nature boy Did they say your name…
The Cormorant Morning in your room again Woken by the children Playing on …
The Count If I don't find my own true love I don't care,…
The Hunger This hunger that I can't describe This hunger but I don't…
The Living I hear it coming It's coming this way It's digging me up The…
The Myth When the seabirds come To close my eyes and leave my…
The Woods We went the two of us into The woods behind the…
Torero I'm dancing for your pleasure I'm falling for your pain I …
Waterworld Growing up with all the boys All the clamor and the…
Woman In Red In a minute, in a drink or two Oh, my darling Don't…