Today, San Fermin share ‘Your Ghost’, the final single and focus track off their brand new EP, ‘Your Ghost’, out today via songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone and vocalist Allen Tate’s label, Better Company.

The label, which Ludwig-Leone and Tate formed in 2020, has since seen releases from Wye Oak, Wild Pink, Sorcha Richardson, Pure Bathing Culture, Daisy the Great, and more.

On ‘Your Ghost’, Tate compares a day with the ghost of a partner to the (more complicated) real-life version. The lyrics are delivered over a cheery guitar riff and propulsive drums; both an indictment and a celebration of a complex relationship: “I make love to your ghost / When I dream about you.”

Speaking on the holistic EP, songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone wrote: “All three of these songs were an experiment with a new kind of writing style, which is I think the best part of writing an EP… it’s a chance to try things out and tweak your process without the pressure of making a whole body of work. I wrote these songs at the piano, thinking about them in a more bare bones way, like, could these songs be played on any instrument at any tempo and still hold up? I wanted them to have a classic feel, like they could exist in any era and still have resonance.”

San Fermin’s music exists in a state of conflicted emotion. Lauded by The New Yorker’s Jia Tolentino for his “knack for simultaneously expressing beauty and crisis,” San Fermin songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone writes songs that shift seamlessly between joy and dread, panic and euphoria. “Every song I write starts from some emotional friction, where there’s a dissonance 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 collaborative EP entitled ‘In This House’, was released last Fall and features collaborations with Nico Muhly, Sorcha Richardson, Thao Nguyen, Wye Oak, Attacca Quartet, The Districts, and Wild Pink.

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