Official Music Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NKay7VywDc

Written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Ant Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Patience

Official Teaser Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VN_dho9S4

Written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Ant Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Solaris

Written, produced and performed by Spirits of Leo
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitars, bass and synthesizer
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Album Art by Coward's Way
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Spirits of Leo Live is:
Ryan Santos Phillips - vocals, guitar
Ant Taboada - backing vocals, guitar
Nick DiPillo - bass guitar
Alex Lichtenstein - drums

Something in the darkness dwells
Like voices from your insides squall
Buried deep in shame, and regression
God’s rejected ones
Shade beneath my cast of faith
Tremored ground attest my strength

I know the plan for God’s rejected ones

Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter
Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me
Entering my spine and crawling out my palms
The spirit is now ascending me
Commanding motion
Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie

Faith is learned or not realized

Something in the darkness dwells
Like poison on your lips, the sickness swells
The devil never comes if you don’t believe him
The curse relinquished
Scepter come, incarcerate
Where I'm captive, I am safe

I know the plan for God’s rejected ones

Ash in hearth, I seek your shelter
Storming, rushing, bounding, assailing me
Entering my spine and crawling out my palms
The spirit is now ascending me
Urging devotion
Don’t fight, infernal eyes don't lie

And nothing ever comes if you won’t believe it

Asylum

Originally written and performed by Joy Division.

Vocals, guitar, bass, synth and drum programming by Ryan Santos Phillips.

The Only Mistake (Joy Division Cover)

Performed and produced by Ryan Santos Phillips

Saltspray

Credits:
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering

Album art direction and layout by Coward's Way
Album art photography by Maria Nemm
Band photography by Nika de Carlo
Logo design by Jared Cortland

Lyrics:

Swaying on the edge of the Earth
The spider’s spun her web
Across panes of sullen glass
An ashen face torments this place
Where the body’s laid to rest
Where the angels strike us down
Birthing a new life

So, so slow
So fleeting

Still, in the pace of the wake
This life, a series of deaths and tragic ends
Her sallow face torments the place
Where her warmth once left a trace
Then the angels took her hand
Returning her to Earth

So, so slow
So fleeting, now
Some come and go too swiftly

For all the writing hands
And games we trade amidst the plains here
For all the pause and play within the maze
We trade at will here
In memoriam, she reaps fields strewn in gossamer
In immortal halls her pain will cease to be

Swaying on the edge of the Earth
The spider’s spun her web
In corners unconcerned
An ashen face torments the place
Where the body’s laid to rest
Where the angels guide her down

And give her peace again
And finally full breaths

Gossamer Blue

Gossamer

Credits:
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering
Album art direction and layout by Coward's Way
Album art photography by Maria Nemm
Band photography by Nika de Carlo
Logo design by Jared Cortland

Lyrics:

I feel the fire of a burning sun
And the voices echo down on me
The sudden swell of a thousand waves
Are plunging to the depths of me
Can you tell a storm is coming
Forming distantly
Like memories that ceased to be

Softly, like wind carries heat in air
Our instincts guide us to the fire
The smoke will lead me there

I feel the fire of a burning sun
And the voices echo down on me
The sudden swell of a thousand waves
Are plunging to the depths of me
Can you hear the embers cracking
Dancing in release
My intuition calls on me

Audrey, listen close again to me
I will gladly go where you guide me
Wherever that may be
Like wind carries salt to sea
And this is the start

Illusory, alluring me
Harrowing, the path can be
But if you see the future in me
Like I see in my visions of you

I feel the fire of a burning sun
And the voices echo down on me
The sudden swell of a thousand waves
Are plunging to the depths of me
Can you tell a storm is coming
Forming distantly
I’ll go wherever you guide me

Visions

Credits:
Engineered and mixed by Ryan Santos Phillips at Lux Perpetua NYC
Assistant engineering by Blaine Bailey and Joni Kyynäräinen
Mastered by Justin Colletti at Joe Lambert Mastering
Album art direction and layout by Coward's Way
Album art photography by Maria Nemm
Band photography by Nika de Carlo
Logo design by Jared Cortland

Lyrics:
Vicious cycles arise
In the wake of decay
Caught averting your sight
To the violence before your eyes
An intruder will rise
Breaking your pride

For a moment in time
There was beauty in reach
But the world that I dreamt
Its walls have been breached
All one moment in time
Just one moment in time

In the wreckage of pain
A new order will rise
Subverting your bliss
Into an agent of fear and doubt
Infiltrating your trust
Breaking your pride

Unseating your consciousness
Forgoing all consequence
The plot is in motion now
Pledging your fealty now
Swearing your constancy
Down on your knees
Letting the darkness win
Vetting a stranger in

For a moment in time
There was beauty in reach
But the world that I dreamt
Its walls have been breached
All one moment in time
Just one moment in time

There’s no future defined

Frailties

This album was written and recorded in one day as part of the 24-hour mini album challenge! For purposes of fun and experimentation. ^-^

Reservoir

Signs of Solidarity

In loving memory of Vaughn Simpson Charles. This album is dedicated to all of the fantastic people in my life. 

Written, produced and performed by Ryan Santos Phillips. 
Vocals, guitar, synth, bass, drum programming, recording and mixing by Ryan. 
Mastered by Leoncio Santos - the Audio Titan - in San Francisco, California. 
Album art and design by Aston Grieco. 
All songs written and recorded between December 21st, 2012 - March 29th, 2013.

The Fog (Angels)

Elysian Fields

Spirits of Leo

Coda

Where You Stand

Eyes & Ears

Annika's Song

Shadow of a Doubt

Burn

16 - Elation: Gravesend

13 - A Portrait

Legacy

02 - Lust and Learning

Eden

My debut EP under Spirits of Leo, released December 22, 2012. Free download via http://spiritsofleo.bandcamp.com/ !!!

Spirits of Leo - Spirits of Leo EP - 01 You Reap What You Sow

The title track taken from Spirits of Leo's debut full-length album, Anastasia (released April 28, 2013).
Free download available now via Bandcamp.com!

Anastasia

A cover of the Beach Boys' version of "Do You Wanna Dance," originally written and recorded by Bobby Freeman. Later covered by the Ramones.

Recorded/performed by Ryan Santos Phillips
May 2013

Do You Wanna Dance (Beach Boys Cover) by Spirits of Leo

Spirits of Leo's take on one of the best damn pop songs ever written

Performed, produced and mastered by Ryan Santos Phillips
Originally performed and written by Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac.

Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

Spirits of Leo is a dreamy post-punk band based in New York City.

Ryan - vocals, guitars
Anthony - guitars, synth
Nick - bass
Scott - drums

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