Cold Specks - I Predict a Graceful Expulsion (album stream)

Cold Specks is Canadian singer-songwriter Al Spx, who now lives in London. The band's name 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." Describing her sound as "doom soul", Cold Specks's music is steeped in the musical traditions of the deep south: Spx cites the Lomax field recordings and James Carr as influences along with Bill Callahan and Tom Waits. But "it's not like I sat down ...

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