Kevin Bronson on October 15th, 2013

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The debut album from Brooklyn-based San Fermin brims with compositional sophistication and emotional rawness. Taking its name from the festival in Pamplona known for the Running of the Bulls, San Fermin evokes the baroque stylings of Magnetic Fields (the National and Sufjan Stevens have also been mentioned) in a genre-hopping manner that moves between chamber pop, indie-rock and neo-classical. The work of 22-year-old Yalie Ellis Ludwig-Leone, the album required the efforts of more than 20 musicians to make; live, he’s joined by vocalists Allen Tate (that’s his baritone on “Daedalus”) and Rae Cassidy; singer-violinists Eliza Bagg and Rebekah Durham; trumpeter John Brandon; saxophonist Stephen Chen; guitarist Tyler McDiarmid; and drummer. Benjamin Kutsko’s video for “Sonsick” is no bull, either.

||| Stream: “Daedalus (What We Have)”

||| Live: San Fermin performs tonight at the Echo.