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  Le Meu Le Purr - Concrete Butterfly
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Le Meu Le Purr pronounced Lee Mew Lee Purr
The name came from one of our favorite childhood cartoons.
Anyone remember Pepe le Peu? Well, he was in love with that female skunk named Le Meu Le Purr.

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The band has a sound that is both relevant and nostalgic, fierce and apathetic, loud and soothing, eclectic and familiar. Listening to the songs for the first time is a wholly visceral and participatory experience; the songs are moving, anthemic, and deeply personal. They transcend typical genres while remaining memorable and distinct.

As the story goes..
After ten years in the same band that was formed in junior high, collaborating with the same people, one would suppose there are a lot of ideas that get passed over because they just don't fit what the group is going for. Aaron Johnson, of the Ventura rock staple, Psycho Cafe, got the urge to retrieve some of those ideas waiting in the wings and with Psycho Cafe rhythm section Robin Ryder and new recruit & favorite drummer, Scott Okuma. Together they set about to prove that all the great rock songs have not already been written.

Rather than hit the clubs with a half-baked idea of sound and melody, the threesome took their ideas to upstart producer Armand Tambouris who helped them craft a complex sound and sonically dense full length debut album set to drop before the band embarks on their first tour. Cathartic anthems abounding in The Sweet Smell of Asphalt include Pop Rocks And A Soda and Sharing Orchids. After making the record they set out on a west coast tour with No Motiv. When they returned, they went directly back into the studio to record another 11 blistering songs. Shortly after they got the attention of many labels and ended up signing to the best indi label ever, TVT. The band just finished mixing with Josh Wilbur (from autumn to ashes, Atreyu, Sum 41). The new 11 songs and 2 tracks off The Sweet Smell are now what we are calling the bands first real release.

One might assume that a sound this original and sophisticated couldn't be created by a new band right out of the box, but its no wonder that such a ensemble could be conceived by members of some of the most revered and well known bands in the So Cal rock scene. During his tenure as the front man for the melody-driven progressive metal band Psycho Cafe, Aaron Johnson has been wielding an axe in 8Stops7, the Warner/Reprise darlings who toured the nation several times over. Along with an equally long stint in Psycho Cafe, Robin Rider was laying down rhythms for the industrial cross-breeder Pong, troubadour Chad Rego and the mainstay of the local dance party, The Ska Daddyz. Bassist Scott Okuma, along with his participation in the sweet pop masterpiece Bad Judgment has also been collaborating with Derek Jennings of the Return on his jangley singer-songwriter side project, The Ashtray Life.