One of the most unique and talented singers I’ve been listening to for the past five years is Cold Specks. In 2013 she collaborated with Moby on two songs for his Innocents album: “A Case for Shame” and “Tell Me.” Her voice was haunting; her lyrics, sublime. The vocals on those tracks took my breath away. I felt as if I was hearing a voice from my childhood that I long ago forgot existed as a possibility.

That October I flew to Los Angeles for Moby’s concert at the Fonda Theatre, where I saw Cold Specks perform her two songs with him. I was enraptured.

The following year she released Neuroplasticity, an album gushing with angular jazz forms restrained within listenable pop structures. Her collaboration with jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire on that album proved fruitful, and she sang a track on his album that was also released in 2014. Here is “A Season of Doubt.”

One of the most unique and talented singers I’ve been listening to for the past five years is Cold Specks. In 2013 she collaborated with Moby on two songs for his Innocents album: “A Case for Shame” and “Tell Me.” Her voice was haunting; her lyrics, sublime. The vocals on those tracks took my breath away. I felt as if I was hearing a voice from my childhood that I long ago forgot existed as a possibility.

That October I flew to Los Angeles for Moby’s concert at the Fonda Theatre, where I saw Cold Specks perform her two songs with him. I was enraptured.

The following year she released Neuroplasticity, an album gushing with angular jazz forms restrained within listenable pop structures. Her collaboration with jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire on that album proved fruitful, and she sang a track on his album that was also released in 2014. Here is “A Season of Doubt.”