Asked what was meant by Neuroplasticity, the title of her forthcoming album, the artist who performs as Cold Specks told CBC Radio One's Q that it had to do with to an "aesthetic change" and a "creative rewiring process." The Canadian singer-songwriter (who also calls herself Al Spx) was referring to a sonic palette richer than the sparse production that marked her auspicious 2012 debut, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion.
We hear some of the new Cold Specks sound on the song Living Signs, exclusively premiered by The Globe and Mail, but mostly it's the insistent back beat that marks a change. The song's tone is dark and brooding, but the drumming give Living Signs a more energetic pulse than previously associated with Cold Specks.
"I found solid proof of living signs," she sings stoically, "I did not intend to raise the dead." So, something new from Cold Specks, the "doom soul" singer who on her sophomore album raises her game, from the ground up.
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