On their debut album, David Baerwald and David Ricketts have come out of nowhere to write and perform a fearless, loose suite about victory and loss; friends, lovers and family; work and Los Angeles. "Welcome to the Boomtown" opens side one with an image of a fated woman high behind the wheel of her Porsche; Baerwald sings, deadpan, "Pick a habit/We got plenty/To go around." That side ends with...