Label: Hardly Art
Released 4/21/2023
Dick Stusso's third album is a document of slow mental unraveling with a world in perpetual decay as its backdrop. With S.P., California-based singer and songwriter Nic Russo has created his most out-there and toothsome record to date, plunging his listeners into a strange and thrilling new world at every opportunity. S.P. is the first Dick Stusso record in four years, following his stellar Hardly Art debut In Heaven from 2018-but this latest missive is more of an indirect sequel to the buzz-building 2015 release Nashville Dreams / Sings the Blues, diving deeper into the fictional character Dick Stusso's crumbling psyche and dystopian surroundings. If our introduction to Dick was someone trying to pursue their dreams and turning into a failure as a result, S.P. reflects the moment where, in Russo's words, "The character is becoming unlikable. He's succumbing to what is taking place around him."
Track listing:
- Rocking Machine
- Part-Time Apocalypse
- The Check in
- Convenient Life
- Garbagedump #1
- A Fairly Normal Guy
- Dinner for Two
- The Masterwork
- Self Reflection (Deep)
- Big Money
- Haunted Hotel
- Checking Back
- How Do You Spell Success?
- Doubt
- Failure
- Hell
- Twilight at the Shareholders' Meeting
- Tears of Love