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’Doom soul’, she calls her music. Canadian act Cold Specks’ bony arrangements sound more like classic, American blues folk with a distinctive singer at the centre.

Close your eyes while the music is playing and you can almost sense cotton-harvesting Southern states of bygone times.

With soft pickings on her acoustic guitar – occasionally accompanied by a little cello and piano – Al Spx creates a goosebumps-inducing atmosphere. Full of dust, patina and longing for deliverance. A brand-new debutant with a voice from the old days.

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