Cold Specks

With her richly weathered voice and impassioned songwriting, Cold Specks' Al Spx writes songs that live up to her self-described style of "doom soul." Her mix of folk, soul, blues, and gospel was at its most rustic on 2012's I Predict a Graceful Expulsion -- her first, but not last album to be nominated for the Polaris Music Prize -- but Spx brought different shades to her signature sound on her later releases. Post-rock and no wave added edge to 2014's Neuroplasticity, while 2017's Fool's Paradise incorporated her Somali roots. On 2025's Light for the Midnight, she transforme...