Costa Perdida
Personnel: David Lowery (vocals, guitar); Jonathan Segel (guitar, mandolin, violin, organ, background vocals); Greg Lisher (guitar); Victor Krummenacher (baritone guitar); Michael Urbano (drums, percussion); David Barbe, Alex Kroh (percussion).Audio Mixers: Drew Vandenberg; Camper Van Beethoven.Recording information: Chase Park Transduction, Athens, GA; Damien Gerard Studios, Sydney, Australia; Electric Studio, Berkeley, CA; Guerrilla Recording, Oakland, CA; Sharkbite Studios, Oakland, CA.A hastily signed, well-worn postcard from the group's Northern California haunts of Redlands, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, La Costa Perdida, the eighth studio album from consistently unclassifiable freak-rock pioneers Camper Van Beethoven, plays fast and loose with the band's mythology. Steeped in a hazy patina of Post-Laurel Canyon, ratty boot cut jeans, and barefoot, Pacific Ocean Americana, CVB's first album since 2004's New Roman Times is willfully homespun, rough around the edges, and crackly a