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[–] 1 point 1 day ago (4 children)

I heard several of their songs, this one included. I like the music but the singer's style feels pretentious, deliberately devoid of inflection, emotion or melody...

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (3 children)

    I like the deadpan delivery. Not every band needs to have an actual singer, after all, and I sure prefer that there are more different styles.

    Deborah Evans-Stickland of The Flying Lizards similarly couldn't sing, and likewise did more of a spoken style: e.g' on ‘TV’ and their cover of ‘Money’. Pet Shop Boys do deadpan vocals at times, but particularly in ‘Paninaro’. And The Fall are pretty well-known in the post-punk circles.

    However, even though I don't listen to the lyrics in most music, I'm mildly irked that Dry Cleaning's lyrics are just a bunch of quippy lines put together — that's literally how vocalist Florence Shaw writes, sometimes taking lines from texts that she sees somewhere (when she's not improvising altogether).

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago (2 children)

    And The Fall are pretty well-known in the post-punk circles.

    Not singing but definitely not devoid of inflection.

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