Cold Specks: I Predict a Graceful Expulsion – review

(Mute)When Al Spx, who is Cold Specks, first appeared on Jools Holland last year, it was with an acoustic performance that suggested she might be striving for bluesy authenticity, in a scratchy, Alan Lomax sort of way. Her debut album, however, is surprising in its richness: there are strings and choral vocals aplenty, giving much of it the weightiness of hymns. No doubt this is deliberate. Religious allusions shoot through the album, most carrying a feeling of funereal gloom. Even the dogged...

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