PREMIERE: PAPA Take You to Church in “Comfort’s a Killer” Video

From the band’s new album “Kick at the Dust.”
PREMIERE: PAPA Take You to Church in “Comfort’s a Killer” Video

From the band’s new album “Kick at the Dust.”

Words: FLOOD Staff

photo by Dan Regan

September 26, 2016

PAPA / photo by Dan Regan

You know what you never hear? You never hear famous people talk about how glad they are to be famous. (Save maybe for one particularly cheery South Side Chicago rapper, but he’s happy about everything.) Maybe in part that’s because being hounded by people in public and freighted with expectations from strangers is a pretty miserable way to live your daily life, and maybe in part it’s because the ambition that drives many people toward fame is unquenchable—which is fine on your way up, but nauseating once you’re at the top.

LA duo PAPA aren’t rolling out fashion seasons any time soon, but they’ve had enough success to know that they should stay wary and keep working. That’s the message behind “Comfort’s a Killer,” the lead single from their new album Kick at the Dust, which dropped a couple of weeks ago via Hit City USA—not that it’d be the first thing you intuit from the stomping sugar-high chorus and singer Darren Weiss’s defiant resistance (“But it won’t kill me”).

This morning, we’re premiering the video for “Comfort’s a Killer,” which according to director Ethan Berger was inspired by Sister Act 2. And lest you think that’s some kind of joke (and maybe it still kinda is), the clip finds Weiss and bandmate Danny Presant donning robes and rocking out. “Nobody needs me to tell them that authority and wisdom have very little to do with each other in practice,” Weiss says. “Just because somebody wears a robe doesn’t make them any closer to God than Chuck Berry. Rock and roll is holy to me. Our sound is our temple. To dance is to pray. Pray like a motherfucker.”

You heard the man:

And if you’re way out west, you can catch PAPA on the road this fall.

PAPA tour dates

10/18 – Santa Cruz, CA –  Blue Lagoon
10/19 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
10/20 – Sacramento, CA – Blue Lamp
10/23 – Portland, OR – Holocene
10/24 – Seattle, WA –  Barboza
10/26 – Visalia – Cellar Door
10/29 – San Diego, CA – The Hideout
10/30 – Santa Ana, CA – The Constellation Room
11/1 – Phoenix, AZ – The Valley Bar
11/2 – Tucson, AZ – Fly Catcher