Echosmith

California's Echosmith emerged as a family band anchored by lead vocalist Sydney Sierota and steeped in buoyant '80s dance-rock textures. While still teenagers, the group captured widespread attention in 2013 with the single "Cool Kids," taken from their debut album Talking Dreams, which climbed into the U.S. Top 40. They refined their buoyant pop approach across the 2017 release Inside a Dream and the 2020 follow-up Lonely Generation before delivering the self-produced Echosmith in 2023, an album marked by introspective, restless songwriting and unconventional sonic choices.

The four siblings came together in Chino, California, in 2009, with Sydney on lead vocals, Jamie handling guitar and vocals, Noah on bass and vocals, and Graham behind the drums. Their father, songwriter and producer Jeffery David, nurtured their musical interests from childhood onward. By adolescence the siblings had begun composing together, drawing from Echo & the Bunnymen and the Cure as well as the Killers and Coldplay. After signing with Warner Bros., they issued Talking Dreams in 2013; the single "Cool Kids" reached the Top 15 and propelled the album onto charts in ten additional countries. That same year the band supported Owl City on tour and appeared at the Vans Warped Tour. Mid-2014 brought the five-song EP Acoustic Dreams, which presented stripped-down reinterpretations of material from their debut.

In 2015 Echosmith shared stages with Twenty One Pilots and the Colourist while also lending vocals to Zedd's track "Illusion." Around that period Jamie stepped away to raise his child and pursue solo endeavors, leaving the remaining Sierotas to continue as a trio. The 2017 singles "Goodbye" and "Future World" preceded the seven-song EP Inside a Dream, which arrived just months before An Echosmith Christmas, featuring their collaboration with Hunter Hayes on a version of "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)." The standalone single "Over My Head" surfaced in 2018, and January 2020 saw the arrival of Lonely Generation. Once again working with their father Jeffery David, the band blended their signature '80s dance-rock leanings with contemporary pop polish. They pursued a more unsettled aesthetic on the July 2023 self-produced album Echosmith, whose lyrics explored personal discontent.