Hermanos Gutiérrez have released their first song to ever feature English-language lyrics – is a love-drunk story of smooth and seductive Latin soul. Led by the unmistakable, otherworldly guitar work and songwriting of brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutiérrez, and Leon Bridges' intimate rasp, "Elegantly Wasted" marks both a departure from and expansion of Hermanos Gutiérrez’s signature sound: undulating rhythms widen with the additions of Mike Rojas on keys, Sam Bacco on percussion, Jeffrey Clemens on drums and percussion, and Dan Auerbach on bass and additional guitar, all while supernatural slide solos decorate the arrangement, and retain the band’s indubitable essence of a “psychedelic spaghetti western” (The New York Times). Stream the new song everywhere now.
"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." ~ Hermanos Gutiérrez
