Tricky’s female singers sound like mediums being spoken through

Evidence

What the voices of his female singers – flat, drained, destitute of ordinary affective cadences – most resemble is the sound of a medium, a voice being spoken by something else. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 109

Categorization

• FICTION: A rich kernel for a ghost-story where possession is less supernatural trope than creative method — writing as being spoken through.
• XREF: connects to: Identifying with the alien powered 20th century popular music’s political charge — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 103