New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Capitol Records) - Bracingly crunchy and soaringly melodic, vibrating with all-out rocking ensemble work and emotional urgency, the second album release In Search of Higher Ground by
Orange County, CA-based rock quintet SAOSIN has been set for release
September 8, 2009, following a barnstorming summer playing this year's Vans Warped Tour.
Maintaining a hair-raising energy level throughout, the album, IN SEARCH OF SOLID GROUND, is the much-awaited end product of writing, tracking and mix sessions that Saosin fans have witnessed online in real time since last summer, with songs written and tracks demoed in the Costa Mesa, CA studio of global youth brand Hurley, where they self-produced several final album tracks. In early 2009, Saosin worked with producer Butch Walker (Sevendust, Fall Out Boy, P!nk) which resulted in 5 songs on In Search Of Higher Ground. They also worked with John Feldman (The Used, Good Charlotte, Story Of The Year) who produced 2 tracks and with Lucas Banker/Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Soulfly, Machine Head) on 1 album track. Band guitarist Beau Burchell mixed all songs on In Search of Higher Ground.
In the run-up to the September release, the album will enjoy added advance visibility through an album download card promotion with Alternative Press, with cards sold onsite at the band's merchandise table, AP's Warped Tour tent, and on the magazine's website. The card bundles an AP subscription with a day-of-release album download, delivered by e-mail zip file, and two instant album track downloads, all for $15. Saosin will do numerous signing events at the AP tent through the summer, and banner ads will run online through the period.
Touching both the anthemic and the intimate, 'I Keep My Secrets Safe' and 'Deep Down' are early-album keynotes, and the style of IN SEARCH OF SOLID GROUND, both finessed and hammer-fisted, emerges in the moody, insightful and unsparing 'Changing,' 'The Alarming Sound of a Still Small Voice,' 'It's All Over Now,' 'What Were We Made For?' and 'On My Own.' Along the way are royal kiss-offs like "Why Can't You See" and "Say Goodbye," a balladic 'Nothing Is What It Seems,' and the complex, building 8:30 album closer 'Fireflies.'
Saosin will play the Hurley stage for the balance of this summer's 2009 Vans Warped Tour (full schedule below). The band will continue to use Twitter to keep in touch with fans, tweeting stage times daily, and also running album listening session contest at select Warped stops through Twitter. It is the band's fourth go-round with the festival since 2004. Veterans of the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tours, 2007's Projekt Revolution tour and April, 2009's Bamboozle Left festival, Saosin has shared the stage memorably with such bands as AFI, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Incubus, Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and many others in recent times. The band also has Come Close, a live CD/DVD set, to its credit.
Praised by Rolling Stone for its 'sheer intensity,' "powerful' by the LA Times and as 'massively buzzworthy' by Alternative Press, Saosin's first self-titled Capitol album has sold over 300,000 units since its 2006 release. Three new songs, combined with bonus acoustic tracks, from the 2008 Hurley on-line sessions were released as The Grey EP, sold on the band's fall tour with Underoath, and on-line exclusively at hurley.com.
Saosin is comprised of Cove Reber (vocals), Chris Sorenson (bass), Alex Rodriguez (drums), Justin Shekoski (guitar) and Beau Burchell (guitar).
For more information on Saosin, please visit www.myspace.com/saosin , www.twitter.com/saosin or www.saosin.com
In Search of Solid Ground Tracklisting:
I Keep My Secrets Safe
Deep Down
Why Can't You See
Changing
On My Own
The Alarming Sound Of A Still Small Voice
Say Goodbye
The Worst Of Me
It's All Over Now
What Were We Made For
Is This Real
Nothing Is What It Seems (Without You)
Fireflies
Saosin on the Vans Warped Tour
7/14 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
7/15 Buffalo, NY Darien Lake P.A.C
7/16 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion
7/17 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center
7/18 Uniondale, NY Nassau Coliseum
7/19 Englishtown, NJ Raceway Park
7/21 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center
7/22 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Amphitheater
7/23 Charlotte, NC Verizon Amphitheater
7/25 Miami, FL Tinker Field
7/26 Tampa, FL Vinoy Park
7/28 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Amphitheater
7/30 Milwaukee, WI Marcus Amphitheater
7/31 Detroit, MI Comerica Park
8/1 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
8/2 Shakopee, MN Canterbury Park
8/3 St. Louis, MN Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/4 Kansas City, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8/6 Calgary, AB Race City Speedway
8/8 Salt Lake City, UT Utah State Fairgrounds
8/9 Denver, CO Invesco Field
8/12 Nampa, ID Idaho Center
8/14 Vancouver, BC Thunderbird Stadium
8/15 Quincy, WA Gorge Amphitheatre
8/16 Portland, OR Columbia Medows
8/19 Fresno, CA Save Mart Arena
8/20 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32
8/21 Marysville, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
8/22 San Diego, CA Cricket Amphitheater
8/23 Los Angeles, CA Home Depot Center
