• Vince Clarke

    Vince Clarke

  • Goldfrapp

    Goldfrapp

  • The Acid

  • Plastikman

  • New Order

    New Order

  • A Certain Ratio

    A Certain Ratio

  • Lee Ranaldo

    Lee Ranaldo

  • Nicolas Bougaïeff

  • Daniel Avery

  • nonpareils

    Nonpareils

  • Daniel Blumberg

  • Chris Liebing

    Chris Liebing

  • K Á R Y Y N

    K Á R Y Y N

  • The Pop Group

  • HAAi

  • Sylph

  • Jake Shears

  • JakoJako

  • Sunroof

  • Miss Grit

  • Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming —
    Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

  • Cold Specks —
    I Predict a Graceful Expulsion

  • Silicon Teens —
    Music for Parties

  • Carter Tutti Void —
    Transverse

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Three Mantras

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Red Mecca

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Voice Of America

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    The Living Legends

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Live At The Lyceum

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Cabaret Voltaire 1974-76

  • 2×45 —
    2x45

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    The Original Sound Of Sheffield '78 / '82 Best Of

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Live At The YMCA 27.10.79.

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Methodology '74-'78: Attic Tapes

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Mix-Up

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Listen Up With Cabaret Voltaire

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Hai!

  • Cabaret Voltaire —
    Yashar

  • Beth Jeans Houghton —
    Sweet Tooth Bird

  • Beth Jeans Houghton —
    Yours Truly Cellophane Nose

  • Moby —
    This Wild Darkness

  • Fever Ray —
    IDK About You

  • Daniel Avery —
    Slow Fade

  • Fever Ray —
    Wanna Sip

  • Moby —
    Like A Motherless Child

  • Fever Ray —
    To The Moon And Back

  • Liars —
    Staring At Zero

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Moroccan Mountains

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Thrown Over The Wall

  • Liars —
    Cred Woes

  • Ben Frost —
    Threshold Of Faith

  • ADULT. —
    Uncomfortable Positions (feat. Lun*na Menoh)

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    New Thing

  • Erasure —
    World Be Gone

  • Erasure —
    Love You To The Sky

  • Can —
    Dizzy Dizzy (The Singles Pt. 2)

  • Can —
    She Brings The Rain (The Singles Pt. 1)

  • Lee Ranaldo —
    Circular (Right As Rain)

  • ADULT. —
    We Are A Mirror (feat. Douglas J McCarthy)

  • Lift To Experience —
    Falling From Cloud 9

Cold Specks

Signs To Mute – Album Out May 22

February 15, 2012

New York, NY

 

SIGNS TO MUTE

DEBUT ALBUM I PREDICT A GRACEFUL EXPULSION OUT MAY 22ND

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “HOLLAND” NOW!

SXSW & SPRING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ANNOUNCED

“Haunting doom-laden soul” Vogue

“Positively spellbinding and downright possessed” NME

 “Haunting and healing in equal measures” The Guardian

Cold Specks will release their debut album I Predict A Graceful Expulsion through Mute on May 22nd. The band have signed to Mute and release a video for Cold Specks’ track “Holland”.

Cold Specks is headed to Austin, TX this year for SXSW 2012 and will tour the US and Canada this May with Great Lake Swimmers. See below for a full list of dates.

Cold Specks is songwriter and vocalist Al Spx from Etobicoke, Canada, who now lives in London. The band’s name is taken from a line in James Joyce’s Ulysses:

“Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil, lights shining in the darkness”.

Describing her sound as ‘Doom Soul’, Cold Specks’ music is steeped in the musical traditions of the Deep South. No wonder then that Al cites the Lomax Field Recordings and James Carr as influences along with Bill Callahan and Tom Waits. With a voice that evokes the ‘spirit feel’ of Mahalia Jackson and the visceral tones of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Cold Specks’ sparse arrangements and chain gang rhythms stop you dead in your tracks.

“My little brother, who was spending his summers with our mother in Toronto, had always told me of this girl he was friends with that had this amazing voice,” recalls Cold Specks’ manager, Jim Anderson. “As a producer I’d heard that so often that I didn’t take too much notice. Then I came in one night to find him and a few friends drinking in the flat and playing a CD of her demos. I was completely transfixed and just kept pressing repeat. I knew I had to work with her. I eventually persuaded her to come over. At that point she had never played with another musician and was completely self-taught with her own unique tuning and timings, which we had to decipher.”

“Jim convinced me to fly out and work on the record for a few months,” explains Al Spx. “That was a year and a half ago. I guess I’m permanently based here now. I didn’t know anyone when I moved here. We needed musicians and Jim knew a bunch. Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey’s regular collaborator) has been helping out with some arrangements and percussion and Jim’s old friends Pete Roberts (guitar), Thomas Greene (piano) and Tom Havelock (cello) also play on the record.”

The band recently performed two songs on Later With Jools Holland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MD4ju12APwCold

 

Tour Dates:

March 13th-18th – SXSW – Austin, TX

March 21st – Co-operators Hall at River Run – Guelph, ON

March 22nd – The Music Gallery – Toronto, ON

May 1st – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL

May 2nd – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI

May 3rd – Cedar Cultural Centre – Minneapolis, MN

May 4th – West End Cultural Centre – Winnipeg, MB

May 6th – McDougall United Church – Edmonton, AB

May 7th – Central United Church – Calgary, AB

May 8th – Southminster United Church – Lethbridge, AB

May 9th – The Royal – Nelson, BC

May 11th – The Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC

May 12th – Alix Goolden Hall – Victoria, BC

May 13th – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA

May 14th – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR

May 16th – The Independent – San Francisco, CA

May 18th – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA

May 19th – The Compound Grilll – Phoenix, AZ

May 20th – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ

May 22nd – The Prophet Bar – Dallas, TX

May 23rd – Stubb’s BBQ (Indoor) – Austin, TX

May 24th – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA

May 25th – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA

May 26th – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC

May 27th – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC

May 28th – Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA

May 30th – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY

May 31st – Middle East Downstairs – Cambridge, MA

June 2nd – The Music Hall, Toronto, ON

 

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