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Perishing Alt-Rock Voice
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Or Perishing Indie Voice for European audiences. Big thing in The '90s, though with a few precursors in the late Eighties, and still more in the Sixties (especially in the folk-rock and Acid Folk genres) and onwards, this is singing in the voice of somebody who 1) sounds as if they're wasting away and can hardly find the energy to vocalize, with 2) attendant flattening of the emotional tone note In bad cases, it can be the musical equivalent of Dull Surprise. Comes in a number of flavours, from ennui and snark to sexed-out bliss to severe burnout. Sonically ranges from wispy to droney, though a fair number of Perishing Singers occupy less easily defined in-between territory, e.g. Lou Reed, Jarvis Cocker, and (depending [even] more on the song) Thom Yorke. The Perishing Alt-Rock Voice may be interspersed with Metal Screams and Stuttering Wailing; it also frequently leads to mondegreens and Indecipherable Lyrics, as well as Something Something Leonard Bernstein. A staple of Grunge and Shoegazing, as well as the bread and butter of Dream Pop, with a tendency to make surprise appearances in Industrial. May overlap in use with Emo Whispering and Yarling: while it's easy to sound perishing if you're singing nasally note because you're actually blocking the nose and thereby getting less air, a lot of perishing singers (like My Bloody Valentine, or Thom from Radiohead) aren't nasal at all, and (as per above) they're usually far from emoting overtly. Not infrequently crosses over into Creepy Monotone or Dissonant Serenity. Related to Three Chords and the Truth, in that the more fanatical ones regard polished, full-bodied singing (which comes from extensive study with a singing teacher) as fake and scratchy, raw singing as authentic and genuine. Basically, this trope is the difference between Sonic Youth's version of "Into the Groove" and Madonna's original. This trope is not necessarily a bad thing. |
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Lisa Hannigan (whose distorted vocals can be heard on The National's "Walk it Back", another exemplifier of this trope) reaches this on occasion. | |
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Courtney Taylor-Taylor from The Dandy Warhols. | |
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Craig Nicholls of The Vines on their slower songs. For some other songs, he uses a Metal Scream. | |
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Jack White with his The White Stripes, side project bands and solo careers. Especially live. One moment he's droning in monotones, the next he's screaming with the utmost control, the next moment he could start preaching to the crowd. Also count his guitar; he wrings out every note worthy of being in the song. | |
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Charlie Simpson from Fightstar fits all the criteria listed above. | |
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Jonas Renske from Katatonia sings like he's permanently on the verge of having an emotional breakdown after being traumatized for years. | |
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Phil Bozeman of Whitechapel (Band), as of Mark of the Blade (which introduced cleans on several songs). | |
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Phoebe Bridgers's voice has been described as a gentle purr and a soft-spoken lullaby. She apparently takes inspiration from ASMR Video. | |
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Geoff Rickly of Thursday loves to use this as much as he loves to utilize his screams. Especially in the 90's-heavy Waiting and the more expansive No Devolución. | |
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Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate. | |
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Kelly Jones from Stereophonics, which has been once described as "whiskey vocals". | |
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Billie Eilish. | |
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Alice Glass of Crystal Castles does this on "Celestica" and "Tell Me What To Swallow", it is used in the latter to Tear Jerker effects once the meaning of the lyrics becomes clear. | |
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Dave Pirner from Soul Asylum. | |
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The Wygal sisters of Splendora were queens of the alt-rock monotone, which is almost certainly why they got to do the theme song for Daria. Speaking of Daria, love interest Trent Lane tries to pull this sound off, but ends up sounding totally stoned (and probably is). |
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Remarkably early example (of the ennui/snark variety) in Bedazzled (1967) (1967) - Stanley (Dudley Moore) wishes to be a pop star and is instantly in a Ready, Steady, Go style show, passionately singing his heart out. His thunder is immediately stolen when the Devil (Peter Cook) does a droning number, dismissing his backup singers' praises in a robotic monotone. | |
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A recurring but not chronic habit of Natalie Merchant's during her tenure with 10,000 Maniacs. | |
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Joe Newman of alt-J. | |
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John Mcrea of Cake, cf. "The Distance" "The Distance" is actually not typical of John McCrea's vocal style. He doesn't normally deliver the lyrics like a robot. Normally he sounds more like this, using a vocal style called sprechgesang. |
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Ed Kowalczyk of Live | |
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Both singers of The xx have this, always. | |
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For Can, both their first vocalists sound like this at times, with a tendency to Stuttering Wailing on the part of both, and (primarily) to Emo Whispering on the part of Damo. | |
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Mitch Stockton, the main singer from Homestar Runner's Fake Band, "sloshy". | |
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Ian McCulloch from Echo & the Bunnymen had a quivering wail in The '80s and The '90s, followed by a deeper rasp in The Noughties after years of smoking. | |
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