Sabrina Pirzada is an artist who captivates her audience with her profound lyrics, exceptional vocals, and guitar skills. Her music transports listeners to a world where every emotion is a source of inspiration, and every moment is an opportunity for growth. Her music is a tribute to the very heart of humanity, with all its intricacies and beautiful struggles. She inspires and motivates us to embrace every moment as priceless and filled with amazement.
Sabrina has a knack for creating straightforward yet captivating melodies with her guitar, landing somewhere with a cool breeze and tempestuous clouds on the horizon, a tricky-to-pull-off balance between tenderness and tenacity that can only exist in the bosom of rock heritage. Her unique vocal style has been described as “an acquired taste for those with discerning musical palates,” and surely I tell you you’re unlikely to have heard anything quite like it in a while.
But far from being just unique vocals and delightful production, Sabrina Pirzada demonstrates through her debut album Tell Them Not To Look For Me, that she’s first and foremost a premiere songwriter of her own league. The album is an impassioned dissertation on emotion without a single ounce of vapid sentimentalism or tired platitudes.
Between stripped-down ballads with only a handful of instrumental accompaniment, to more lush tracks striking the right kind of chord with those of us into rock and roll, in fact, there’s an air about the album that has this nostalgic scent to it, and if I may be so bold as to use the term “dad rock” as a complement rather than Gen-Z/Millennial pejorative, then let’s unapologetically say that there’s plenty of that in the album’s DNA to bridge many generational gaps in one go, and do so in a solid and monumental way that hits almost entirely out of nowhere.
Although the album is generally speaking very positive in its themes, to call it “upbeat” wouldn’t really cut it, and the nuance with which Sabrina frames each narrative thread makes it so you cannot absolutely accuse the record of being saccharine at any point. If anything, Sabrina comes off as a justified idealist with songs like “You Put The Rock n’ Roll Back”, or the titular “Tell Them Not To Look For Me”, where she enshrines the virtues of love with a polite nod to its follies, such as the underpinned, recurring subject of love unrequited that flows through the entire duration of the record, a nice and bitter aftertaste to contrast with the sweetness of it all.
Ultimately, the album succeeds in everything it set out to do, and more, because it isn’t just a showcase of Sabrina’s talents and skills. It’s a brilliant piece of music that has a timeless quality, which could appeal to people who miss the classic music era just as much as those melomaniacs that have never stopped believing and are always looking out for innovative and unique energy with a promising outlook. Give this album a go, and when the year is done, see what comes close to it in sheer songwriting prowess.
