Life With Dick

Life With Dick is the 2017 album by Grace Sings Sludge. Its the continuation of a world Grace Cooper began illustrating as one of the lead songwriters of the San Francisco band The Sandwitches, and on her previous three collections of solo home recordings. As with the other solo albums, Cooper does the artwork for the album. Her delicate yet disturbing pen and watercolor creations are the perfect accompaniment to her songs, as though theyve emerged from the same troubled dreams. Her lyrics contain the weariness of giving in to a love requited, and the unsettling realities of maintaining that love. In some pieces it seems she no longer knows where to direct her endless yearning. The spookiness of Coopers sound is still present here and especially on the darker second side. The recording quality of this release is raw but it is far from being a garage record. It is a recording brought down from the attic, with no date and with no intended audience, and is best listened to alone.