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As a frontwoman, she developed her own style – a droll mixture of sprechgesang and her fluttering, airy upper register.

Coming in hot after a year of singing lessons, Strange Angels sees Anderson swapping her signature sprechgesang for full-blown song.

Unsurprisingly, sprechgesang did not come about as a means to enable scratchy indie bands to make their audiences feel uncomfortable.

I'm Ready, on which that familiar sprechgesang delivery is somehow both metronomic and distended, is exemplary, but the whole record – dosed with menace – sounds hungry.

Anthony Andrews just about pulls off Rex Harrison's sprechgesang and his irritable, Basil Fawlty-ish air.