Seraphina Lotkhamnga on November 13th, 2012

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I wouldn’t recommend watching this Cold Specks clip for “Hector” during lunch, but its subtly gruesome storyline plays off of Al Spx’s unflinchingly raw songwriting rather well. The track off the 23-year-old’s debut album “I Predict a Graceful Expulsion” is one of her many arrangements that are dubbed as “doom soul,” and the video’s nuance is a clever take on Spx and her band’s ability to embrace such beauty and somberness at once. Not all of her songs can soundtrack visuals featuring a zombie bride and her decapitated groom, but it encourages one to take note of the emotional depth in Spx’s repertoire.

||| Previously: “Blank Maps” and “Holland”

||| Live: Cold Specks plays Saturday at the Getty Center. (Admission free with reservation.)