Everything in the story of Sourpatch has been leading to their second album, Stagger and Fade, which leaves their peers in the dust.

Formed in San Jose, CA. in late 2007, Nicole Munoz, Christine Tupou, Mander Farrell, and Rich Gutierrez's music is bruised fruit; it's rancid candy. It's a cute joke turned around and shoved back down the listener's throat. They are in love with being alive, knowing it can be taken away at any time, and goddamn it feels so good.

Sourpatch endorses a gender freeing, queer positive, all-ages, feminist hinking, crush worthy lifestyle. They embody what it feels like to come to a vista point of influences, to embrace matriarchal ideals imparted years before their time and take on a radical critique of the world around them.

Building on a breakout with their first full-length, Crushin' in 2011 the band and their label (HHBTM Records) received national attention from publications like The Village Voice, NPR, and Bust magazine. 2012 finds them poised to take an even bigger leap forward.

The band is the realized utopian vision of their influences, the gifted, precocious children of Tiger Trap and Tallulah Gosh. Sparkle and Fade fulfills every promise the band has ever made, and we may not hear a more excited/exciting album all year. It's the sound of infatuation, it's the sound of being young, it's the sound of hoping against hope. It's rollercoaster melodies and caffeinated rhythms. It's buying a lottery scratch ticket and knowing this one's going to be the winner, the one that changes your life forever. They're going to tour until the world stops turning. No one will ever be the same again.