Liz Cooper

Liz Cooper

Genre: Rock & Americana | Price: $5,000 - $15,000

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About The Artist

On the porch of her one-time Nashville home, Liz Cooper had a multimedia project that combined two of her loves: lips and cigarettes. She painted her own lips with red paint and kissed a canvas two or three hundred times, later dotting them with the detritus left behind in ashtrays by her friends. An overlap of intimacy, indulgence, cheekiness, and sensuality, the piece complements Cooperé's roiling second record, Hot Sass. Over jagged, frenetic guitar parts, Cooper sets expectations aflame. Her songs unfurl like smoke spiraling off an incense cone late in the afternoon, with Cooper pushing deeper into psychedelic openness, punk ferocity, and beyond.Hot Sass marks multiple departures for Liz Cooper: from her nine-year home of Nashville, from her band addendum of the Stampede, from any genre-burdened expectations sheé'd accumulated over the years. After heavy touring in support of 2018é's Window Flowers, where her songs stretched out in live settings, she felt constricted by the Americana-adjacent associations that the Stampede carried. So with her bandmatesé' blessing, she dropped the moniker, pursuing sounds and songs that let her chase the inspiration lent to her by the likes of Courtney Love, Lou Reed, and David Bowie. In Burlington, Vermont, Cooper and her cohort é─ţRyan Usher, Joe Bisirri, and Michael Libramentoé─ţrecorded Hot Sass at Little Jamaica, the personal studio/private residence of producer Benny Yurco (Michael Nau).

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