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San Fermin songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone writes songs that shift seamlessly between joy and dread, panic and euphoria. Since the band’s beginnings in 2013, San Fermin’s ambitious scope has taken them across a variety of genres, attracting an eclectic group of collaborators that reflect Ludwig-Leone’s own wide-ranging musical background. Prominent indie musicians (Wye Oak, Thao, The Districts), contemporary classical luminaries (Nico Muhly, Attacca Quartet, Lavinia Meijer), folk artists (Sam Amidon), and notable featured vocalists (Lucius, Samia), have lent their efforts to the breadth of San Fermin’s studio albums, belying Ludwig-Leone’s restless musical imagination and desire for constant reinvention and collaboration. Across this shifting sonic landscape, Ludwig-Leone’s focus has always remained on the intensely personal. “Every song I write starts from some emotional friction, where there’s a conflict between two things that I feel really strongly,” Ludwig-Leone says. “The rest of the song comes from a desire to work that conflict out.” San Fermin’s newest EP, Your Ghost, produced by San Fermin vocalist Allen Tate, comes out on Ludwig-Leone and Tate’s own Better Company Records on September 9th, 2022.