Continuing the "sawdust and chicken-wire" aesthetic of SERAPHIM - a collection of American spirituals - BRIAN GROSZ & THE BAD IDEA present us with LOST ANGELES, another pair of alt-country songs perfectly crafted for shit-kicking and crying in your beer.

Both the title track and the B-side ("One More Last Time") deal with Americana's time-tested themes of loss and longing, but in the spirit of jukebox 45s, each song approaches those issues on a decidedly different tack. "Lost Angeles" combines barroom swagger with the wink of JOHN PRINE as GROSZ chastises a friend for leaving the struggles of New York City for the cruise-control lifestyle of Southern California; with the slightest hint of a HANK III sneer, GROSZ challenges the listener, "Go and find yourself in Lost Angeles / Run and tell 'em all that you failed the test." As a counter-point in theme - and with its comparatively sparse instrumentation - "One More Last Time" is a pillow-talk apology and final farewell to an illicit lover with whom the tryst has gone on for (almost) too long.

It's time for all of us to say, "Hello," as BRIAN GROSZ & THE BAD IDEA say, "Goodbye."

LOST ANGELES features guest appearances from Kamara Thomas (Earl Greyhound, Earl Maneein (Resoltion 15) and Brian Satz (Pistolera)