Without every releasing an album, Saosin thrives in the underground post-hardcore community. A history of line-up changes couldn’t stop them from taking a step towards their next goal. With accumulating success from their EP’s and singles, Saosin has just now released their first record. These southern California boys tell me what it’s all about – the tan, the record, and their interesting band mates.
I know that there have been some changes in your lineup. Tell me about that.
Beau: When we first started the band, it was Justin and I. Basically we had someone play the drums and bass while Anthony sang. We didn’t actually have a set band. So after we were done recording our first EP, we got Chris and Alex. We toured with Anthony as the singer for two years or so until he quit. Since then, Cove has been our lead singer.
Is there something different about the Warped Tour that you like more or less than other tours?
Beau: For me personally, there are more things I don’t like about it, than I like. Say you have friends in a different city and you want to see them. In a normal tour you can tell them that you will be in at noon, sound check at four, and show at ten. So you know your schedule and you can hit them up to hang out. But if you say, “Hey, I’m doing Warped Tour, lets hang out.” then you get here at seven in the morning, don’t know your schedule until 10am. Your day is completely full, and there’s just no time to visit with friends who’ve come to see you.
I talked to some bands about some ‘beef’ that’s been going on between bands. Do you know anything about that?
Beau: There’s the obvious: NOFX makes fun of Underoath everyday. But I don’t think there’s anything going on there. I don’t know, I’m not involved with it. We don’t have any beef with anyone, do we?
Justin: I don’t think so. Who doesn’t like us?
I do know that you guys are known as the ‘pretty boys’ of the tour. Also, do you guys actually go tanning like they mentioned?
Beau: We live in Newport Beach. On the beach where we live, everyone has to be tan. The reality is that we are on tour a lot of the time, and so when we come home I do like to get a little bit of a base coat going before I hit the beach.
Justin: You do need a base coat. If you went from a winter tan to Warped Tour, you are going to get severely burned. I went tanning like maybe four times before Warped Tour so I wouldn’t burn when I went to Warped. Yeah, so burnings bad, base coats are good.
Have any beauty products you’d recommend?
Justin: California Tan X is pretty damn good. Executive Tans in Newport Beach is pretty awesome. Go to it. All the cool people go to it.
Do they know you guys by first name there?
Justin: Yes they do. They help us into beds and even undress us.
Since Anthony left the band, there have been some speculations that the band has changed the way they pronounced Saosin because of his departure.
Beau: Not true. I’ve always pronounced it Saosin (Say-o-sin). Let’s say if you were asked to interview Saosin, and you have never heard of us, you may have written Saoshin or Say-ocean. Now, if you were to come here and ask for us with something like Say-ocean, they wouldn’t have been able to find us. I just pronounce it (like Say-o-sin) correctly for the logical reason. You know, if we say it like Say-ocean then we sound like we have some sort of speech impediment or something. We actually have two buttons like that: ‘Saosin’ and ‘Say-Ocean’. But as long as people like us, I don’t care how they pronounce it.
How long did it take you to work on the debut full length?
Justin: Three years. That’s when our last EP came out.
Beau: We were in the studio for about three months.
Justin: And Cove finished up writing for it three months before that.
Do you do things together when you get back to Newport Beach?
Beau: We all live together, except for Chris.
Justin: Oh yeah, all the time. Beau and I share a room. One room and it kicks ass.
Beau: And then Cove and Alex share the other room.
Justin: But it’s pretty awesome though because we’re never home anyways, so it saves us money. Anywhere in Orange County is expensive. But again, it’s cheaper than all of us living apart from each other. We all get along really well too, so it doesn’t really matter.
Beau: Chris moved out because he likes to burn incense in the house.
Justin: Yeah, Chris got weird. We’d come home, and he’d be burning his apples with like pitchforks surrounding him- playing piano to candles and what not.
Beau: He purchased this pretty rad video camera. And he went through this phase where he was trying to make claymation stuff. So we’d come home from being out all night, and Chris would be down on the ground in a sort of weird pose.
Justin: He’d have a soundstage set up on our fucking coffee table. It was like black matting and he’d have this little worm made of clay. He kept moving it, and was trying to record it curling up. Yeah, so he does weird stuff a lot, so he moved out. So it’s just us now. Fuck him, mother fucker.
Since this record you just released is your debut effort, you have built upon a few EP releases. What has helped you get your music out the most?
Beau: I’d say file sharing. Downloading and stuff.
And that doesn’t bother you?
Justin: For this record, yes.
Beau: Well the way I look at is that most of the people that have downloaded our stuff and likes it, have gone out and bought the CD afterwards and if it’s a thing like that, where they like it then buy it, then it’s cool. But if they download it and don’t like it, I don’t care either.
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