About

Lost Leaders was born in a barn. Levon Helm’s barn to be precise. Originally it was just a group of songs written by longtime friends Byron Isaacs (The Lumineers) and Peter Cole (of 2000’s pop/rock T.V. placement juggernaut Lava Baby). Byron was playing in Levon’s band at the time and so the friends were invited to live and record at his barn for a few weeks. While recording they were invited to play the Midnight Ramble with Levon which essentially was their first gig as Lost Leaders. The resulting album won some fans in the press. RELIX called it “...a timeless sound that could have materialized just as easily in Laurel Canyon as in Woodstock, N.Y...a band out of time [and] perfectly in the now. ..” & No Depression “I love this album. I love it. I want to run out to the street and plug my earbuds into the nearest ears I can find and force them to listen to Lost Leaders...Among my top picks for this year...” Upon release the song I’m Gonna Win was picked up in heavy rotation by AAA station WXPK in White Plains, NY and from there it spread across the country. With no label they chased the train as it was leaving the station. 

For the follow up L.P. Promises Promises, they worked with David Baron (The Lumineers, Jade Bird, Meghan Trainor, Vance Joy) as Producer. After touring on and off in support of that record, the Jealous Sun E.P. emerged. The lead single “Long Way Down” was the most added song at Americana radio in June 2022 and landed in the top 100 nationally later that summer. In a strange and unexpected tangent Peter was cast in Hannah Ha Ha the debut film from Jordan Tetwesky who had been working on videos for the band. The film went on to win Best Narrative Feature at Slamdance Film Festival and was screened at film festivals around the world. Peter’s performance was even called out in a great review in the New York Times.

Getting back to what they do best, Byron and Peter spent 8 weeks in the studio during the Spring of 2023 and so Lost Leaders has a new full length album exploring desire and acceptance aptly titled “Hungry Ghosts” which they plan to release in 2024.