Hermanos Gutiérrez and Leon Bridges release new single ‘Elegantly Wasted’
Leon Bridges and Hermanos Gutiérrez have teamed up to release ‘Elegantly Wasted’, marking the latter’s first single of the year.
Their team describes the track as “a love-drunk story of smooth and seductive Latin soul.” Most importantly, it is Hermanos Gutiérrez’s first song to feature English-language lyrics.
The music video for the single was filmed at the historic Texas Theatre and perfectly captures the tune’s dark, romantic, sensual vibe.
Hermanos Gutiérrez said of working with Bridges, “We’ve always been fans of Leon’s style and his way of approaching music.”
They continued, discussing the birth of the collaboration: “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.”
The duo continued, in awe: “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.”
Earlier this summer, the Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers made their national television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live. In September, Hermanos Gutiérrez will return to the US to follow up on this widely watched performance, for some of their biggest headlining shows to date.
These dates will add to an impressive 2025 touring list that already spans five continents in 2025 alone. This includes a current festival run in Europe, sold-out headline performances at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre, and a completely sold-out tour of Australia with Khruangbin in February and March.
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