Kevin Bronson on July 24th, 2013

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The big news here is not that PAPA has teased the universe with another roaring rock song, but that the L.A. band – built around the collaboration between drummer Darren Weiss and bassist Daniel Presant – have set a date to release their full-length album. “Tender Madness” will be out Oct. 8 via Loma Vista. The album is the follow-up to PAPA’s 2011 EP “A Good Woman Is Hard to Find” and last year’s “Put Me to Work” single, releases that stamped the band and its singing drummer as aspirants to the bold, outsized rock ’n’ soul of stadium bands who inspire fist-pumping euphoria one minute and poignant reflection the next. Nothing they’ve done so far has diminished that vision.

||| Stream: “Young Rut”

||| Live: PAPA plays a free show Friday night with NO and LA Font as part of the FIGat7th Downtown Festival. They return to L.A. on Sept. 19 at the Wiltern, opening for Cold War Kids.

||| Previously: “If You’re My Girl, Then I’m Your Man,” live at the Troubadour; “Put Me to Work” video; “Put Me to Work,” “Ain’t It So,” at Buzz Bands LA’s party in Austin; interview with Darren Weiss; “I Am the Lion King”