Download: Sabrosa Purr, ‘Killing the Aries’

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For most of five years, L.A. hard rockers Sabrosa Purr have roared uncomfortably (at least for those who like their genre lines nice and clean) between the post-punk/shoegaze and metal worlds. On their long-awaited full-length album “To the Crickets and the Ghosts” (quietly released digitally this year), the quartet creates its own little shriekdom – with bassist Angie Mattson and drummer Mahsa Zargaran holding up the low end while guitarists Jeff Mendel and Will Love rip as if it’s the 1980s on the Sunset Strip. The sprawling track “The Lovely People” has been around since their debut EP in 2006 (it’s made a couple TV appearances too); it gets flushed out nicely on the full-length, as does “To Bring You My Love” from 2009’s “Volaras” EP. The gritty “Killing the Aries” takes everything by the horns.

||| Download: “Killing the Aries”



||| Stream: “The Lonely People”