| Cold Specks / I Predict A Graceful Expulsion |
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| Album: | I Predict A Graceful Expulsion | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Cold Specks | Added: | Jun 2012 | |
| Label: | Broken Hertz Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-10-05 | Pull Date: | 2012-12-07 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 9 | Dec 2 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 | Nov 4 | Oct 28 | Oct 21 | Oct 14 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 10, 2013: | The Sunset Life (2012 in Review) Winter Solstice | 4. | Dec 07, 2012: | Wait, what?! Winter Solstice | |
| 2. | Jan 04, 2013: | New and Old Holland | 5. | Dec 06, 2012: | The Sunset Life Holland | |
| 3. | Dec 26, 2012: | Meow After Midnight: Best of Fall 2012 When The City Lights Dim | 6. | Dec 06, 2012: | A Family Affair The Mark |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Away Reviewed 2012-09-27 | ||
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Soul/folk/post-rock From Swans to Spiritualized, this has been a fantastic year for music that appropriates and expands on gospel traditions, and Cold Specks offer another great release in this vein. The band aims for a quieter, lusher sound than the artists above, and frontwoman Al Spx’s achingly gorgeous vocals are authoritative but restrained. Wow. Favorites: 3, 4, 6, 7, 11. No FCCs detected. 1. (2:16)—Medium-slow guitar plucking. Subdued vocals. Strings and backing vocals in the chorus. 2. (2:29)—Slow. Starts sparely but builds and adds drums, washes of guitar, and strings over the song’s course. 3. *(4:05)—Mid-tempo. Starts with piano and vocals. Drums, strings and a choir emerge further on. Builds but never explodes. Chills the bones. 4. *(3:20)—Slow. Reverb-y guitar begins the song, and later a full band enters. Very catchy chorus. 5. (2:35)—Medium-fast. Lush, almost a fusion of shoegaze and soul. 6. *(3:50)—Mid-tempo. Gorgeous opening. Acoustic guitar dominates the first half. Drums and a choir break in, then recede. 7. *(4:14)—Medium-fast. Acoustic guitar with the occasional inclusion of a choir. In terms of power, Spx’s vocal delivery approaches Bob Dylan’s. 8. (3:48)—Mid-tempo. Piano-driven. Builds in the final third. A cappella ending. 9. (3:12)—Medium-fast. Full band enters a minute in. 10. (4:01)—Slow. Plucked guitar begins the song, and other instruments gradually enter until the song is very loud. 11. *(3:11)—Medium-slow. No full band, mostly just acoustic guitar and vocals. The restraint ends the album beautifully. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | The Mark | 6. | Holland | |||
| 2. | Heavy Hands | 7. | Elephant Head | |||
| 3. | Winter Solstice | 8. | Send Your Youth | |||
| 4. | When The City Lights Dim | 9. | Blank Maps | |||
| 5. | Hector | 10. | Steady | |||
| 11. | Lay Me Down | |||||