I’ve barely got any info on Canada’s Cold Specks (Facebook/MySpace) other than she is Al Spx of Etobicoke, Ontario and writes some of the most bleak but beautiful and disarming songs I’ve heard in a long time. The similarities with Johnny Cash are obvious, as she writes what she terms as “doom soul”, but its the simplicity that draws you in leaving her smokey dulcet tones the hang in the air.
She previously gone under the recording names of Basket of Figs and The Hotel Ghost – if you want to find more then have a search for a collection of demos called The Soft Science that was released 2009 and EPs Dead Language, Oh Eye, Oh Night, and 666. (Massive thanks to DC from The Waiting Room (Twitter) for remembering/digging up the details and first playing her alluring tunes back in 2008)
Now, however, she is recording with Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi, Scot Walker), who is also doing some drumming for her – and I can’t wait to hear more.
Holland by Cold Specks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqpgjfeqaLM
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