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Neuroplasticity [Slipcase] by Cold Specks (CD, 2014)

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Product Identifiers

Producer
Jim Anderson
Record Label
Mute
UPC
5051083081979
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16050133729

Product Key Features

Artist
Cold Specks
Format
CD
Release Year
2014
Release Title
Neuroplasticity [Slipcase]
Run Time
34 Mins 42 Seconds
Genre
Rock

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Additional information
Audio Mixers: Jim Anderson ; Ben Hillier. Recording information: Hotel2tango; Revolution Studio. Photographer: Steve Gullick . Mercurial Canada-born, England-based singer/songwriter Al Spx laid the groundwork for her self-described "doom soul" movement on 2012's downright miasmatic I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, a relentlessly slow-burn collection of bluesy and winded soul-folk that suggested an unholy union of Odetta and Tindersticks. On Neuroplasticity, her ear-popping sophomore long-player, she takes the "doom soul" architecture to an exciting new level, pumping it full of nervy post-rock and no wave, resulting in something that sounds akin to Santigold, St. Vincent, TV on the Radio, Laura Mvula, and Macy Gray at their most despondent. To be fair, there is something impenetrable about the record, but while it may feel decidedly bereft of hooks upon first listen, multiple spins reveal layers of incredibly complex arrangements and offbeat instrumentation (marxophone, trumpet, vibes, woodwinds, harmonium, etc.) that reward even as they flail about in fluctuating states of torment. This newfound predilection for juiced-up melancholy gives the album an immediacy that its predecessor, as good as it was, lacked, especially on standout cuts like the subversively breezy "Bodies at Bay," the apocalyptic, goth-folk epic "Formal Invitation," and the blistering opener "Broken Memory," a funereal jackhammer of a dirge with a devilish horn section to match. Fittingly, Swans' Michael Gira lends his distinctive baritone to the appropriately brooding "Exit Plan" and the truly bleak and beautiful closer "A Season of Doubt," the latter of which, an aching, post-coital/pre-dawn torch song, sums the record up best with its final line: "I've got an unrelenting desire to fall apart." ~ James Christopher Monger
Reviews
Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "'A Quiet Chill,' driven by thumping drums, imbues her familiar stony edge with femme fragility." Pitchfork (Website) - "The music of Cold Specks exists somewhere between log-cabin warmth and wintry forest chill, between exquisite elegance and raw release, between young compulsion and old-soul wisdom."
Engineer
Jim Anderson; Jack Clow; Howard Bilerman
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo

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