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SAOSIN1
"Bury Your Head"
SAOSIN2
"I Wanna Hear Another Fast Song"
SAOSIN3
"Voices"
SAOSIN4
"You’re Not Alone" (Chorus)
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Southern California quintet Saosin are one of the fastest-growing
headliners in rock – earning mainstage slots on the Vans Warped Tour,
selling out clubs in a flash, going out with heavyweights like AFI,
Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday and
garnering an ocean of fans who’ve downloaded their songs from MySpace
over five million times – all before they’ve released a full-length
album.
That will all change on September 26th with the Capitol
Records release of their self-titled debut. As your average Saosin fan
(and there are legions) will be quick to point out, the wait was a
considerable one. “We were waiting until the songs were right,” says
frontman Cove Reber with some understatement.
It’s been three
years since word of the band’s full-length debut first surfaced, and in
that time a lot has changed within the music scene from which they
originally emerged and within the band itself.
Seemingly
overnight, stylized bands playing strains of melodic post-hardcore have
sailed up the pop charts. But for Saosin -- Reber, bassist Chris
Sorenson, drummer Alex Rodriguez, and guitarists Beau Burchell and
Justin Shekoski -- things have played out a bit differently. During the
scene’s ascension, the band’s members have all but shunned the idea of
a genre tag or an “image” -- unless, of course, you count the jeans and
t-shirts they soak in sweat every night onstage -- and have instead
focused their energies on making an album that will live or die
strictly on musical merits.
“At first we said we weren’t interested in putting the album out on a major label,” says Burchell. “We wanted to grow first.”
But
the band’s sound and its ambition grew tremendously during the
recording of their 12-song debut, an album that exceeds even the
wildest of expectations. From the dueling guitar crunch of opener
“It’s Far Better to Learn” to the nosebleed anthemic heights of lead
single “Voices,” the livewire maelstrom of “Follow and Feel” and epic
heartstring-puller “You’re Not Alone,” Saosin have created the kind of
debut album that announces something indisputably new under rock’s sun.
“It
was a long time coming,” says Sorenson, “but finishing the album really
put a fire under our asses and we were better for it.”
The
initial stages of the band’s debut date back to late 2003 when founding
guitarists Burchell and Shekoski and original frontman Anthony Green
began playing out, recorded a quick EP, Translating the Name, and
embarked on a U.S. tour during which time Green exited the band. To
the group’s surprise Translating the Name garnered the band a massive
fanbase both online and at their live shows, which grew organically,
and quickly.
The band, however, was so hands-off about promoting themselves that Google searches of the band turned up precious little info.
“It
was cool if you knew about the band, we weren’t always easy to find,”
says Burchell. “But I think that really brought kids together, having
to actually make the effort to track us down.”
A collection of
rabid fans with Ethernet connections soon began arguing about such
pressing matters as how the band’s name was actually pronounced (it’s
“say-o-sin”) and what it actually means (Saosin means “small heart” in
Chinese. The word comes from a 15th century proverb about fathers
telling their sons who are being married off for money not to get
emotionally involved with their wives, who could die at any time.)
In
the winter of 2005 the revamped Saosin lineup with Sorenson, Rodriguez
and new frontman Reber signed to Capitol, released a self-titled EP of
demos and live tracks, and began pre-production on their long-awaited
full-length debut. As the band recorded various versions of their new
songs -- both at their home studios and on a mobile recording unit that
they set up on their tour bus – the burden of heavy expectations
eventually gave way to genuine excitement.
“I would demo stuff with Chris,” Reber recalls, “and say, ‘This is really good – we can’t not run with this.’”
In
turn, the album that Saosin began recording with producer Howard Benson
(My Chemical Romance, Head Automatica) this past January -- nearly a
full year after they began properly demoing its songs -- would live up
to the band’s great expectations, and then some. More importantly,
though, it proves that in a world of overnight success at least one
group is devoted enough to write songs that are built to last.
“This
record is going to take us places,” says Sorenson. “We don’t know
exactly where, but it will definitely be an experience getting
there.”
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