Floral Tattoo with Bug Seance and Armature

Floral Tattoo

The band was formed in 2015 by Alex Anderson in their hometown of Kirkland, Washington. After a particularly messy break-up, their newly acquired habit of journaling ‘turned from stream-of-consciousness rambling into songs’. In turn, this lead to a dissatisfaction with the lack of self-expression that was possible in Anderson’s then-main band Darkmysticwoods – they had nowhere to go with their folk punk-inspired ideas, so acoustic solo shows under the name Floral

Tattoo became an important outlet. Not too long after they started playing on their own, Anderson moved to Chico, California for a year, which is where they met now-former bassist Nico Pellowski, who would coincidentally move to Seattle a month before Anderson decided to return home. Back in Washington, Floral Tattoo finally turned into the full-fledged band it is today with the addition of Power, whom Anderson had met before moving to Chico, and drummer Christian Taylor.

But how did Floral Tattoo get its name? Anderson revealed that it came from a friend of theirs: ‘Back when the project first started, she was dating my other friend Dakota and the three of us were rather inseparable. She made a collaborative playlist on Spotify for us to listen to whenever we were hanging out so we never had to argue about what to listen to.’ Save for Power, none of the band members have an eponymous floral tattoo, and even they got it only after joining.

With Bug Seance (PDX) and Armature