Chapter 6: Narcotic

Trip-hop — Lessons — Thinkin’ of a master plan — Acid jazz — Label creep — I cried to dream again — Lullabies and drug songs — “It’s a Fire” — Breaths and lipsmacks — Railway stations and Noël Coward — Impossible sounds — A vocal performance — The big moments — Suspect of certainties — Vocal frying — Oracles

In this chapter:

• Trip-hop
• “It’s a Fire”
• Recording the vocals; post-production
• Technology and the organic
• Vocal performances on Dummy
• Lyrics and their meaning in Dummy