Biography
Although the post-punk-inflected emo quartet Sirens Sister assembled only in 2006, the Seattle group’s collective background reaches considerably earlier. Singer, acoustic guitarist, and keyboardist Zach Davidson, guitarist Leif Anderson, and bassist Jeff Rouse had all previously belonged to the major-label punk act Vendetta Red; Rouse had also performed with Joe Meice’s scrappy pop-punks the Alien Crime Syndicate, while drummer Ben Libay appeared in assorted minor local outfits. Originating in Bakersfield, CA, before relocating to the Pacific Northwest, Vendetta Red remained active for eight years and five albums—three of them on Epic Records—until its breakup in early 2006. Davidson, Anderson, and Rouse established Sirens Sister almost at once, trading Vendetta Red’s harder-edged style for a sweeping sound shaped by 1980s exponents of the Big Music, among them U2, Simple Minds, and Echo & the Bunnymen. They promptly signed to the local indie The Control Group, run by another ex-member of the Alien Crime Syndicate, and entered the studio shortly after forming. Their debut album, Echoes from the Ocean Floor, appeared in September 2006.
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