Hermanos Gutiérrez share first English-language song featuring Leon Bridges, "Elegantly Wasted"

On the new collaboration, choosing Bridges to work with them on the track, and why it was love at first listen, Hermanos Gutiérrez say: “We've always been fans of Leon's style and his way of approaching music. When we were in Nashville together last November, we had a window of maybe four hours before our show at the Ryman that night, but managed to finish a song we'd been working on for months.

Leon showed up, and he heard the track for the first time at the studio together with Dan Auerbach, the whole team of Easy Eye Sound and Leon's crew. He took a microphone, and he just started to sing a melody over it. It sounded like an angel. We all expected him to crush it with his first note, and he did. And he wasn't even singing lyrics; he was just singing whatever felt natural. It was such an incredible moment, and then he got together with Dan, and they wrote the lyrics.”

“This is the product of being on tour together for seven weeks. Touring is fun, but sometimes it's like you're on a nonstop journey. You can feel that in the music and in the sound. There's something really happy, but also a bit nostalgic,” they continue.