Any Other City by Life Without Buildings (Side A) - 300

In part one we chat a little about Life Without Buildings and their origins. In doing so, we're forced to reckon with the particular vocal style of Sue Tompkins. In some quarters it's been quite divisive (there's a particularly bad NME interview that is a good example of this) but really her style is part of a much longer and larger legacy, one that is still very much alive and kicking to this day. Yes, we're talking about spoke-sung artists, or more specifically the vocal techniques of sprechgesang and sprechstimme. In the latter half of this episode we go on a little journey through history to really show how these vocal styles have been a part of popular music for a very long time.