Written by Shea Roney | Photo Courtesy of Dick Texas

Every Wednesday, the ugly hug shares a playlist personally curated by an artist/band that we have been enjoying. This week we have a collection of songs put together by Valerie Salerno of the Detroit-based project Dick Texas. 

Last spring, Dick Texas released their debut album All That Fall. Each track levies a patron’s holy prayer; two taps on the bar and shoot it back, the liquid warms your belly as you try to decipher the hidden message a glitching neon sign leaves you in the absence of its whole. Salerno’s songs become a dynamic exchange, a transfer of self as she pulls engagement in the face of grief and heartbreak. Yet it’s clear these songs aren’t meant to live in those spaces for too long. Amongst the sun-bleached bones and cinematic knots, embracing opportunity over any form of formality, guitars cut through the scenery while reverberated structures absorb the space they are given. And as wounds begin to scab over and all that was left to wither now grows with defined eagerness, Salerno’s instigations on All That Fall begin to feel more accessible with each listen.

Listen to the playlist HERE!

You can listen to Dick Texas’ catalog now as well as purchase a very limited cassette run of All That Fall via Remove Records.