Singer/songwriter Cold Specks, nee Al Spx, who is nominated this year for the coveted Polaris Prize, has announced plans to release a second album this year.
The new project will be called Neuroplasticity, and it follows her first album, I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, which was released in 2012 and was also nominated for the Polaris Prize as well as a Juno.
“‘Absisto’ was the first song that I started writing and last song that I finished… it showed the growth of the project, so I thought it was the best song to have out first,” she told The Canadian Press of the first single that came out recently. “I think this record demonstrates a more realized sound for Cold Specks. It’s sonically playful but thematically the record is still fairly dark.”
Spx was born in Toronto but now lives in Montreal. She’s gained a lot of notoriety in the last few years for not only her solo work but her collaborative work with artists like Moby (she worked on his 2013 album Innocents with him and can be heard on two tracks) along with Swan (and their ’14 endeavour To Be Kind).
The Polaris Prize will be handed out at a gala event in Toronto on September 22nd.
Photo: Steve Gullick/CBC
