FOOL'S PARADISE (LP)

Vinyl LP pressing. Vinyl LP pressing. 2017 album from Toronto singer/songwriter Ladan Hussein (AKA Cold Specks). oFoolAEs Paradise,o the title track of the album, was partially inspired by the legend of Araweelo, a mythic Somali queen whoAEs said to have castrated male foes. oFoolAEs Paradiseo is also the first time Cold SpecksAE music has incorporated the Somali language. The words in the songAEs bridge are okala garo naftaada iso laftaada,o or ounderstand the difference between your bones and your souloua phrase Hussein says she learned from her grandmother, and a sentiment entirely at home amidst Cold SpecksAE brand of spare, meditative soul.'