Sabrosa Purr

Sabrosa Purr is an American alternative, indie, experimental and/or rock band (except when they’re not) based in Los Angeles, CA. Will Love is the producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist.

New Music Mixtape: The Tracks You Need To Hear This Week
by Johnny Firecloud Feb 23rd, 2016

This week’s New Music playlist is a genre-hopscotching dose of greatness, featuring long-awaited new tracks from Sabrosa Purr, Gold Panda, Flowers and more. In our quest to widen the taste spectrum, we’ve tag-teamed a collaborative effort with our Crave UK brethren to bring you the best new songs hitting the streams this week.

Sabrosa Purr – ‘Hard-Eyed Lions’

Sabrosa Purr is one of those bands that seems only to exist if you believe hard enough. I first caught the SP bug back in 2009, stumbling across one of their CDs through a friend of a friend. The spark of excitement caught fire, and as momentum began to build… Sabrosa Purr disappeared back into the woodwork. But band nucleus Will Love has been active all the while, crafting what would become the next evolution in the band’s sound. Our patience and faith have been rewarded brilliantly in “Hard-Eyed Lions,” a pulsing electronic thrust of psychedelic excellence that dances a line between erotic and ominous. It’s fucking delicious, and we can’t wait for the band – with a new live lineup and, presumably, a new album – to hit the stage again.
– Johnny Firecloud, Crave Music Editor

https://www.mandatory.com/culture/956997-new-music-mixtape-tracks-need-hear-week

SABROSA PURR RETURN WITH ‘HARD-EYED LIONS’
February 16th, 2016

We first discovered LA’s Sabrosa Purr back in 2009, when a random disciple handed Johnny and I a CD outside of a Black Rebel Motorcycle Club show that had just been shut down for fire code violations. I listen to everything, I click on every stupid link that gets emailed or tweeted to me, because every once in awhile, it’s something as good as Sabrosa Purr, that I’m never going to get a smarmy press release about.
We kept up with them over the years to follow, and put them on our SXSW showcase back in 2011, and have discovered a number of other great acts through their association, such as Battle Tapes, and ex-Purr drummer Mahsa Zargaran’s Omnifluxproject.
For awhile, Sabrosa Purr has been dormant, due to a complex swirling of circumstances, but we’ve always known that Will was itching to get a third album out, some way, somehow, sooner or later. And it looks like the time has finally come.
Over the holiday weekend, he slipped out this new track, Hard-Eyed Lions, a more electronic execution than we’d come to know the band for, but with the same dark, burning bad vibes that have always been a big part of Sabrosa Purr’s DNA. And we’re told that this is the beginning of a new era for the band, with a new live lineup gearing up to play some shows.
In the meantime, you can buy Hard-Eyed Lions on Bandcamp or iTunes. Follow them there or on Facebook for more music to come, and live dates.

BUZZBANDS.LA
by Kevin Bronson on AUGUST 11, 2013

If you wanted to find any artist who was moving the dial instead of pushing buttons, you had to be at the Viper Room’s Guitar Center Stage early in the afternoon for the set by long-underrated L.A. quartet Sabrosa Purr. It featured the band’s “original recipe” lineup — “extra crispy,” guitarist Jeff Mendel said afterward, noting the heat — of singer-guitarist Will Love, Mendel, bassist Angie Mattson and drummer Mahsa Zargaran. (Mendel and Mattson are involved in a major-label project that’s taking off and haven’t been available for many Sabrosa Purr exploits.)
Sabrosa Purr makes heavy music that straddles the metal, shoegazing and experimental worlds, with Love’s anguished vocals bawling for a place between his and Mendel’s dueling, shrieking guitars and the seemingly unflappable bottom end provided by Mattson and Zargaran. Even on a small portable stage in the afternoon heat, their set was mind-blowing, with Love venturing into the small crowd for a shredder standoff with Mendel. If SSMF were a battle of the bands, Sabrosa Purr won.
- See more at: http://www.buzzbands.la/2013/08/11/sunset-strip-music-festival-plays-to-the-masses-not-its-legacy-on-a-mixed-bag-saturday-of-music/#sthash.QAB3Xm2s.dpuf

GLIDE MAGAZINE
by L. Paul Mann August 9, 2013

One of the first bands to play there was the Los Angeles based quartet, Sabrosa Purr. Every year at the festival, there seems to be one local band that stands out as a potential phenomenal new force in modern pop music. Last year, Dead Sara performed an opening showcase set that had national critics buzzing about their potential as possible new rock stars. Sabrosa Purr may have been this year’s surprising new gem.

The band led by quixotic singer and guitarist Will Love, travels a road somewhere between the Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead. And what a fascinating road it is, with frenzied guitar drenched jam sessions, punctuated with eerie electronic overlays, producing their own unique sound. Love pranced around like a madman playing his guitar, even leaving the stage and strolling through most of the small crowd gathered around. Jeff Mendel also frequently takes turns playing a frenzied lead guitar, laying down masterful wailing solos. The rhythm section features Angie Mattson on bass and an unnamed female drummer, both bringing a Gothic element to the group.

CRAVE ONLINE
2012 Music Guide: 50 Most Anticipated Albums of The Year

Founded by Will Love (Guitar/Vox) upon his arrival to California, the power-thrust dirty-strutters of Sabrosa Purr have been cutting their way through LA’s music scene with their two self-produced EPs Volaras and Music From The Violet Room, and one full album To the Crickets And The Ghosts produced by Tracy Chrisholm (Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland). If you've never heard of 'em, strap in. Those who have, you're in for a rockin' little treat.

http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/180851-2012-music-guide-50-most-anticipated-albums-of-the-year?start=1

LA WEEKLY
Yes, there are still amateur Angeleno bands building robust reps through self-financed recordings and compelling club shows (and without monkeying themselves out to reality TV). Sabrosa Purr are an odd collision of loner, stoner introversion and crotch-thrusting fuzz-box rawk. They lurch from the ultra-ethereal, flotation-tank vocals and slithery, succulent guitars of "Suckerpunch Kiss" to the open-shirted glam strut of "Fashion Kills" without so much as an explanation or apology. Though probably more convincing at the former than the latter, they seldom sound contrived. Yet for every moment of earnest Pink Floyd-ish psychedelia, each hint of enigmatic early Cure b-sides or sexy T-Rex flexes, Sabrosa Purr are really all about the original Jane's Addiction -- they're eclectic because Jane's were. The heavily delayed yelps of "Killing the Aries" and "Sabrosa Purr, Pt. 1"'s druggy whimper are downright Jane's addicted, but they're lost in enough love to forget and forgive. Few bands traverse heel-stomping, classic-rock crunch and eyes-clenched, headphone bliss like this.-Paul Rodgers- LA Weekly

ONE TIMES ONE
"Sabrosa Purr are the most mystifying, bizarre, and intriguing band you’ll hear for a long while. They can swing from tender folk to bombastic metal at the drop of a hat, and it never seems forced or contrived. The simple answer is that this is a band that loves music, and loves so much of it that they can’t be bothered to choose just one style. How rebellious, how bold."-Emily Tartanella

THE OWL MAGAZINE
This is not a buzz band; buzz bands annoy the shit out of me, as they tend to be more machine hype than worthy listens (still looking at you, The Vaccines). This is not an indie hipster trip of pretension; that annoys the hell out of me, too.
The fact is Sabrosa Purr is a collision of stoner fuzz and metal punched up by guitar rock (\m/) and glam, as ethereal and enigmatic as any drug induced head trip, yet no laws need be broken in order to indulge. Comparisons have been made to many bands of note from Smashing Pumpkins to Jane’s Addiction; let your own ears be the judge for similarities.

Follow link for full review:
http://www.theowlmag.com/features/socal-report-sabrosa-purr/

Sabrosa Purr Want To Sell You “Cocaine”

"As hard drugs go it's pretty dirty, even more so if you've read the recent news about large amounts of it containing flesh
eating bacteria (drug use is as sexy as ever!). But from JJ Cale to Eric Clapton, "Cocaine" has been a rock and roll haunt
of an auditory tale. Wicked shit, but a hell of a song. LA band of badassery Sabrosa Purr has turned pusher and tackled
the tale, doing it mighty fine justice, so much so that I suspect Sir Slowhand, himself, would give it a royal wink of approval."

http://dharma69.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/sabrosa-purr-want-to-sell-you-cocaine/

Gigspunk Review of July 15th show at The Satellite in Los Angeles, CA


"I’m a little hesitant to mention Sabrosa Purr next because I fell in love after hearing them. While I enjoy a broad spectrum of musical styles, sometimes there’s that little proverbial itch that needs scratching, and even if it’s been temporarily ignored. So when they came on and started with a solid, heavy, gut shaking song called “Fucking a Monster” I knew I was in exactly the right place at the right moment. Theirs was the perfect set for letting the vodka take hold and forget all the crap that happened during the week. The performance was raw yet still conscious of shadows and Will Love’s level of vocal cord shredding was sublimely cathartic.

Bless this band for handing out copies of their “To The Crickets and The Ghosts” CD for the price of an e-mail address. I’ve been listening to it quite a lot since, as well as other tracks from “Music from the Violet Room”. They have a sound that gives such satisfaction; able to achieve the sonic violence of warp in a blink but also envelop the listener in afferent velvet.

Mention should also be made of their ending cover of “Cocaine” last Friday night. It was great; a slinky rendition that culminated with guitarist Jeff Mendel and bassist Victoria Mordoch joining Mahsa Zargaran on the drums. Pretty much sealed the deal for me, and so I could end there."

http://www.gigspunk.com/?p=10

Review of Roxy Show 8/19/2010

Sabrosa Purr

My favorite LA band use to be J* Davey, but now I think it’s Sabrosa Purr. Their show was completely enchanting. They are pure, un-cut rock-n-roll. Their sound is like Portishead meets Soundgarden, and just as beautiful to look at.

The chemistry of a female bassist and a female drummer on stage was refreshingly different. This band went from heavy riffs to a light ambient sound like they were unanimously switching on an off a light bulb. Their intimacy on stage gave me the chills.

For me, Sabrosa Purr was something unexpected, and that is what was so wonderful about their performance. Their cover of Eric Clapton’s “Cocaine” was unmatchable. Seriously, if you have a chance, don’t miss their next show! They rocked me!

THE DELI MAGAZINE:

Thank the Los Angelinos gods for precious, little diamonds like Sabrosa Purr. Bands like this don't come by the dozen in this desert, and I have nothing but good things to say about their latest genre-defying release "To The Crickets and The Ghosts". Drawing inspiration from the likes of PJ Harvey, The Smashing Pumpkins and Pink Floyd, it's hard to pinpoint their exact sound (which, as in "My Song For The Girls", can leap from a low, quietly hypnotic guitar line [think "No Surprises" by Radiohead] to the astronomical heights of a heavily fuzz-driven, scream singing tag [think MBV style Chorus with something like Bixler-Zavala-esque vocals in a few blinks of an eye], but whatever it is that they're mixing together in their rehearsal time, it slides down wonderfully and leaves me slamming my glass down on the bar and asking for another. Alex Valles