San Fermin is the brainchild of a Brooklyn songwriter and pianist named Ellis Ludwig-Leone, but he's no frontman: Three singers share lead-vocal duties on the 20 piece chamber-pop band's self-titled debut, and he's not one of them. Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig also sing in , but they don't harmonize so much as sing in unison; the third vocalist is Allen Tate, whose grim, deadpan baritone recalls that of the National's Matt Berninger. Written over 6 weeks at the Banff Centre.