KEXP DJ Albina Cabrera on Hermanos Gutiérrez and Leon Bridges’ New Collaboration
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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KEXP DJ Albina Cabrera joins host Evie Stokes to talk about one of her favorite tracks of the year so far. It comes from Ecuadorian-Swiss Latin instrumental band Hermanos Gutiérrez and their new collaboration with Leon Bridges on the song “Elegantly Wasted.”You can also hear Albina on KEXP’s Spanish language podcast El Sonido: Cancioneros where she talks with Latin artists every week on the music that made them. Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
| 0:04.3 | Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. |
| 0:07.2 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
| 0:11.5 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of. |
| 0:14.8 | This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm happy to welcome back Albina Cabrera. |
| 0:18.8 | For listeners who don't know who you are, tell me about yourself. |
| 0:23.5 | Big question, E. |
| 0:24.8 | So I work at K-EXP with all the Latin programming and the bilingual content. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm also the co-host of El Sonido. |
| 0:33.2 | All right, you have a new song that you're going to share with us, what you have today. |
| 0:35.9 | The song I have for you today is elegantly wasted by Armano Jutierrez featuring Leon Bridges. |
| 0:44.4 | And this is one of my favorite songs of the year. |
| 0:49.6 | I have the honor to hosted the second Live on KXP session with Ermano Jutierrez earlier this year. |
| 0:57.6 | And during the interview, we were talking about this collaboration. |
| 1:02.3 | They were so excited about this first song for Erbano Jutierrez. |
| 1:07.5 | This is the first track with lyrics in English, actually. |
| 1:13.8 | And I think that is so cinematic and so beautiful. |
| 1:18.8 | That is one of my favorites so far of 2025. |
| 1:23.7 | So what about this song specifically do you love? |
| 1:27.6 | Well, I think that it describes like a very beautiful story, like love story, but also you can feel this like Latin soul on it. |
| 1:42.1 | It's really smooth. |
| 1:43.8 | And I think that also works very well with the music video |
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