Saint Leonard Shares New EP Twilight Over Tempelhof — Featuring a Haunting Take on Jacques Brel’s “Amsterdam”

Saint Leonard returns with Twilight Over Tempelhof, a striking new six-track EP recorded live to tape with acclaimed producer Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Spiritualized). The release reimagines key songs from Leonard’s recent, critically praised album The Golden Hour — celebrated by The Line of Best Fit, Clash, Far Out, The New Cue and more — revealing an intimate, alternative emotional core.

For the sessions, Leonard assembled three classically trained musicians and decamped to Shinoda’s extraordinary analogue studio in the English countryside. Over just six hours, the quartet captured six songs, performed entirely live and cut straight to two-inch tape — no edits, no overdubs, no second chances. The result is a warm, immediate document of a single moment in time.

The EP features a spectral cover of Jacques Brel’s “Amsterdam.”“Few songs have been as endlessly reimagined and rediscovered as ‘Amsterdam’,” says Leonard. “It’s a shimmering quicksilver pool of melody and imagination in which any listener may scry, and sigh, eternally.”

Shinoda adds: “The session went so organically — even my cat wandered in, jumped on a band member’s shoulders and meowed during the take. We kept it in. It felt like part of the spell.”

Twilight Over Tempelhof follows the release of The Golden Hour, Saint Leonard’s bold third album — a fever-dream fusion of Berlin-born electronica, Weimar shadows, late-night paranoia and sardonic wit. Written across LA, Nashville and Berlin, the record marked a radical shift from his earlier cosmic Americana, pulling listeners through a fractured world of claustrophobic apartments, dark techno pulses, saxophone smears and existential unraveling. “The key to a Berlin record,” Leonard says, “is being completely submerged in the Berlin state of mind.”