Cold Specks - I Predict A Graceful Expulsion flac album

Cold Specks is the former stage name of Somali Canadian singer-songwriter Ladan Hussein, who was previously known as Al Spx. Her music has been described as doom-soul. The name Cold Specks is taken from a line in James Joyce's Ulysses ("Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil, lights shining in the darkness. She released her debut album, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, on May 21, 2012, on Mute Records and Arts & Crafts in Canada. Her second album, Neuroplasticity, was released on August 26, 2014. It featured trumpet playing by Ambrose Akinmusire.

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Listen to I Predict A Graceful Expulsion, the debut album from Cold Specks, and you re transported to the Deep South, to the Ozarks and Appalachians, to the stirring songs of chain gangs, and to Harlem at the very point where blues met soul. Describing her sound as Doom Soul, Cold Specks music is the sound of struggle and strife brought up to date, packing all the power and potency of a voice that seems to stop time

Cold Specks I Predict A Graceful Expulsion. With the chorus chanting, Take my body home, album opener The Mark sets a dark tone for I Predict A Graceful Expulsion. Cold Specks is the stage name of singer-songwriter Al Spx. Despite being born in Canada and now based in London, her lyrics remind us of a Southern Gothic novel. Spx describes her sound as doom soul. We’re not depressed by Cold Specks’ infatuation with death; we’re intrigued by it. There’s something hauntingly beautiful about the saying ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and believing that we come from dust and will return to dust when we die. I Predict A Graceful Expulsion delicately finesses this theme, making it palpable for listeners. The Owl Mag. We’re a bronze medal music publication and gold medal drinkers.

Cold Specks is Al Spx, a 24-year-old singer/songwriter from Etobicoke, Ontario who was signed to Mute earlier this year on the strength of an arresting demo. Spx- the peculiar name is a pseudonym, invented to protect a devout and apparently disapproving family- has the disoriented air of someone who's come further than she expected, and sooner: In interviews, she's shown some difficulty recalling the names of all her new bandmates and confesses she still occasionally gets ill before live performances. What elevates I Predict a Graceful Expulsion above pure comfort food, however, is how it subtly tugs against the big, major-network-drama payoff for which it feels custom-built.

Cold Specks' funereal blues doesn't quite reach the transendence it strives for, writes Rebecca Nicholson. No doubt this is deliberate. Religious allusions shoot through the album, most carrying a feeling of funereal gloom.