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n. - A style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking.

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  • More light hookage and sprechgesang-style singing a la Tricky would make this act pretty formidable.
  • Disgusting things you'd never anticipate? sprechgesang those immortal words in 1980, he was referring to a party out of bounds.
  • Giovanna Cacciola's voice sounds like a mix of Björk, PJ Harvey, and Lydia Lunch, her style somewhere between sprechgesang and shouting.
  • For once, adequate nuance is audible in Irons 'rapping - there's a little growl in "interga - lac-tic" - and the same goes for Harris-White's vocal contribution, which...
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