Saosin

Influential American post-hardcore band Saosin has released their first new material
since 2009 and first ever full-length album with original singer Anthony Green, Along the
Shadow.
Saosin’s earliest beginnings packed a full career’s worth of creativity and momentum
into one short year, with a scene-defining blend of heady artistic intellectualism and
passion. But as history tells it, Green left Saosin after the release of Translating the
Name, the 2003 debut EP that set the blueprint for the band’s sound. Saosin went on to
release two major label albums with singer Cover Reber, Saosin (Capitol, 2006), and In
Search of Solid Ground (Virgin, 2009). Since leaving, Anthony Green has been a part of
the band Circa Survive.
But with Green's return in 2014, after performing together for the first time in 10
years, Along the Shadow is an adventurous rush of energy; equal parts confidence and
vulnerability. It is the total musical experience of the classic Saosin line up:
vocalist/lyricist Anthony Green, guitarist Beau Burchell, bassist Chris Sorenson, and
drummer Alex Rodriguez. Sorenson produced Along the Shadow and Burchell
engineered, with Green’s longtime collaborator Will Yip (Circa Survive, Title Fight,
mewithoutYou) handling vocal production. Along the Shadow is the homecoming of
Green whose instantly recognizable signature vocals and ambitious creative energy
fuels an accomplished body of work. It is an album that straddles the line between
metalcore angst and melodic experimentalism; a perfect balance of what makes
Saosin's music both pretty and brutal.