{"id":11300,"date":"2012-06-30T10:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11300"},"modified":"2012-07-07T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T00:47:38","slug":"check-out-cold-specks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-06\/check-out-cold-specks\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Cold Specks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <strong>Adele<\/strong> is off on pregnancy-leave, what better time to check out other (better?) artists in the same genre?\u00a0 In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-06\/watch-brandi-carlile-sing-that-wasnt-me-on-the-current\/\"><strong>Brandi Carlile<\/strong><\/a>, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/coldspecks.com\/\"><strong>Cold Specks<\/strong><\/a>, which is primarily the work of Canada-born and London, England-based singer\/songwriter <strong>Al Spx<\/strong>.\u00a0 Having rapidly gained attention and appearing on <strong>Later With Jools Holland<\/strong> last year, Cold Specks has released their critically-acclaimed debut album,<strong> I Predict A Graceful Expulsion<\/strong>, on <strong>Arts &amp; Crafts Records<\/strong>.\u00a0 To get a feel for the band, check out below recent performances by Cold Specks (sometimes with band, sometimes without) who have\/has been making the rounds in support of the album.\u00a0 We like what we hear.\u00a0 Simple, yet lyrically complex.\u00a0 Intelligent, and not afraid to use it.\u00a0 And yes, the girl can sing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cold Specks - Hector (Hoxton Hall Session)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ropZ1apYo6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CcAWMxddNHs&#038;feature=plcp<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cold Specks - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lIsEELFKzHA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Adele is off on pregnancy-leave, what better time to check out other (better?) artists in the same genre?\u00a0 In addition to Brandi Carlile, check out Cold Specks, which is primarily the work of Canada-born and London, England-based singer\/songwriter Al Spx.\u00a0 Having rapidly gained attention and appearing on Later With Jools Holland last year, Cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}