Los Angeles song-slingers PAPA are pleased to unveil their video for the track “Ain’t It So.” The video is constructed of simple scenes that emote a nostalgic aesthetic, something that the band intended to focus on for the video. Singer/Drummer Darren Weiss explains, “We didn’t exactly want to tell a story with this video, but still wanted to somehow show the delicious ugliness and magnetism of nostalgia. How strange it is to feel your contemporary self in a memory. The king is dead, long live The King – and all that sort of business.”
After the initial run of A Good Woman Is Hard to Find 12″ Vinyl sold out earlier this year, Hit City U.S.A. and Psychadelic Judaism have done a limited repressing of 500, 200 of which come on red vinyl. The records are first come first serve here. There’s a poetic purity that runs through PAPA’s punk-meets-soul album. The record suggests devious truths and well told lies. Singer and drummerDarren Weiss‘ earnest vibrato often takes on a Springsteen-like growl in its best moments while in each song’s groove a dangerous sexiness lives. A Good Woman is Hard to Find is an album as ripe for romance as it is partying. It has moments of aggression and simple bliss, with a classic sense of harmony, melody and style. It’s a modern, rough-and-tumble take on classic soul.
With the help of Weiss’ musical partner, friend-since-childhood, bassist Danny Presant, the tracks gain a hip-hop sensibility that separates PAPA from simple revivalists and instead into timeless territory. It’s an exacting and revelatory ode to what’s wrong with modern romance but what won’t stop one from giving it another go.
Tour Dates:
08/08 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory *
08/09 – San Francisco, CA @ California Academy of Sciences Lawn *
08/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands Festival
09/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ FYF Fest
*w/ Of Monsters and Men
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