last US dates and moved to the UK where they based themselves for a year. During the remainder of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Syren played countless venues around the UK including Nottingham Rock City and Manchester Academy supporting space rock band Hawkwind. The band's first tour of the Netherlands came in the summer of 2008 where they were booked to play over 13 shows across the country. Syren received //much press throughout the Netherlands all of which praised the group saying, 'The balance between these three and the grand ensemble that results from it, and again interspersed with the right dose of spontaneity, provides an extraordinary musical spectacle that keeps surprising.'''-RTV Rijnmond Throughout 2009 the band played hundreds of shows in all regions of the Netherlands, supporting some big Dutch and American acts (The Madd, Tony Spinner) and playing large venues such as Dordrecht's Bibelot, Acedemica Big River's Festival '09, Waerdse Tempel and the Noordzee Zomer Festival in Katwijk aan Zee. Syren were described by RTV Rijnmond's Ronald Van Oudheusden as being '3 Hard Rock Chickies' after their performance on Live Uit Lloyd and were featured in a three-page article in the Netherlands' Gitaar Plus Magazine. With Syren's growing popularity and attention in the press by 2010 Syren had relocated to The Netherlands where they based themselves and reached out to nearby territories such as Germany and Belgium. Second studio album, Something Has To Separate After moving to The Netherlands in 2010, Syren set to work on their second studio album at Nemesis Studios in Den Helder. The new album, titled Something Has To Separate included 10 original songs written and produced by Syren and took listeners on a journey through the pendulous emotions of love unrequited. The title track, "Something Has To Separate" is one of many songs on the album featuring a new electric guitar sound by Bennett which takes Syren in a new direction from their debut album which featured only acoustic guitars. After all of the instruments had been recorded and the tracks produced by Jo and Erin, Syren once again relocated back to the United Kingdom where they set up 'Sapphic Studios' in Scotland. There Erin laid down the album's vocals takes and recorded and arranged the strings played by Australian singer/songwriter and cellist Rebecca Wright for the song "Special". By August 2011, the album was being mixed by Erin and 'The Beast'