Cold Specks is 24-year-old Canadian artist Al Spx. Listen to I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, the debut album from Cold Specks, and you're transported to the Deep South, to the Ozarks and Appalachians, to the stirring songs of chain gangs, and to Harlem at the very point where blues met soul. Describing her sound as Doom Soul, Cold Specks music is the sound of struggle and strife brought up to date, packing all the power and potency of a voice that seems to stop time.