PAPA Releases New Album ft. Sky Ferreira, QOTSA, Miya Folick, Devendra Banhart Band Members
New Album from Lana Del Rey, Perfume Genius, Sky Ferreira, Miya Folick-Musician features Brad Oberhofer, Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stone Age), Tyler Cash (Devendra Banhart) & More
PAPA TOUR DATES
Oct 15 Washington, DC - Union Stage
Oct 16 Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry Philadelphia
Oct 18 Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere
Oct 20 Cambridge, MA - Sonia
Oct 22 Toronto, ON - Drake Underground
Oct 23 Detroit, MI - Lager House
Oct 24 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
Oct 25 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
Oct 27 Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge
Oct 30 Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret
Oct 31 Seattle, WA - Fremont Abbey Arts Center
Nov 01 Portland, OR - Holocene
Nov 03 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
Nov 05 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
**all dates with Sorcha Richardson
Today, PAPA released their latest full length album, Dig Yourself Or Dig A Hole, – their first full length album since 2016’s Kick At The Dust. PAPA is Darren Weiss, who has been a staple in the Los Angeles indie music scene for over a decade and has worked and toured with the likes of everyone from Lana Del Rey to Sky Ferreira, from Perfume Genius to Girls. The album also features keyboardists Brad Oberhofer – who Weiss played with in Miya Folick’s touring band – and Tyler Cash (Devendra Banhart), bassist Michael Shuman (Queens of the Stone Age, Mini Mansions), violinist Daphne Chen (Travis Scott, Niall Horan, Aimee Mann) and more. PAPA is also set to kick off their North American Fall Tour this Sunday, October 15th in Washington, DC. See all tour dates below and listen to the heart-on-your-sleeves, feel good 11-track indie rock opus, Dig Yourself Or Dig A Hole, in full now - LISTEN HERE.
Of the album, Weiss notes:
“Sometime over the pandemic, I found a folder of unfinished PAPA songs that I had completely forgotten about, and was really excited by a lot of what I’d heard. It felt like PAPA, it didn’t feel like material I could use in the project I was working on at the time. It inspired me to write a new album based on the feeling I wanted the band to give our listeners.”
“The album is called ‘Dig Yourself Or Dig A Hole’ which, to me, means that you have to be the person who invents the world for a person like you to live in. Find a way to find yourself there, or you might as well start digging a grave. This album is one of the places I had to invent to find myself on a map.”
Today, he also released the album’s third single, “Simple Life,” that he notes, “is a break up song for those who choose to be black and blue rather than beige.” The new track follows early singles “Everything Takes An Accident,” a buoyant track that leans on a mix of pop and guitar rock reminiscent of the likes of Electric Light Orchestra and was recorded with keyboardist Tyler Cash (Devendra Banhart) and violinist Daphne Chen (Travis Scott, Niall Horan, Aimee Mann, Carrie Underwood); and “Barcelona” which Weiss notes, “When you have to go where you’ve never been to get back home.”
nce described as “Joe Strummer and the E Street Band,” PAPA blends the urgency and passion of their early punk influences with a classic sense of songwriting that makes their music feel fresh, vital, and somehow like it’s always been there. PAPA released their debut EP, A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, in 2011 and two full length albums: 2013’s Tender Madness and 2016’s Kick At The Dust. Since PAPA’s last release, Weiss has been busy as a touring and session drummer with the likes Lana Del Rey, Albert Hammond Jr, Perfume Genius and Sky Ferreira, among others.
Though it's been a few years since the last PAPA album was put out, it is clear from listening to the upcoming release, Weiss has so much more to say, and can't wait to tell you all.