Website: http://papatheband.com/

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/papabandmusic

L.A. drummer, singer and songwriter Darren Weiss (ex-Girls) started PAPA with a simple goal: to make 'American soul music with a punk-rock mentality'.

On their debut ep, A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, Weiss, with musical partner Danny Presant, succeeds in this task admirably. Five songs full of devious truths and well told lies, A Good Woman Is Hard To Find rolls along with a natural swagger, combining moments of aggression with stretches of easy bliss, the whole release handsomely endowed with harmony, melody and style.

In its best moments, Weiss' earnest vibrato takes on a Springsteen-like growl; his stories and the songs' effortless grooves coming across both sexy and somehow broken. PAPA's songs recall the furious grip of the dance floor, the cold pavement outside, and the way you kiss when you’re not sure you’ll ever see the person again –– or whether you'd even want to.

It’s a modern, rough-and-tumble take on classic soul. An ode to what's wrong with modern romance, but one so filled with revelatory spark that you can't help but want to give it all another go.

A Good Woman Is Hard To Find is out now on Gaga Digi.