Anyone know of any music like these bands? Synth-y dance-y goth pop with chicks singing in sultry tones?
Crash Test Dummies?
They all start with C…
In the G’s there’s:
– Garbage
– Goldfrapp
Yeah, I am listening to Garbage on the Pandora Collide stations right now. 
Goldfrapp is a good one though not quite upbeat enough. Sneaker Pimps, Massive Attack and Portishead are probably fairly good ones. Goldfrapp IME tends to be a bit more laconic.
The goth punk band The Flesh would probably be up your alley, but a guy sings some of the songs.
Not so goth, but: Ladytron, A Kiss Could Be Deadly, Laika, Shiny Toy Guns, Controller.Controller, and Enon.
Hooverphonic
Supreme Beings of Leisure (first album only)
Solar Twins
Blondie
Snake River Conspiracy
lots of Crystal Method songs
DJ Rap
Eurhythmics
Snakefarm
Sounds like what you’re looking for is Ayria. Some decent songs from her:
Depends on the album. “Supernature” sounds like what you’d like. Songs: Ooh La La, Lovely 2 C U (awful title, good song), and Ride a White Horse.
Some This Mortal Coil tracks might do. Also, Diamanda Galas. PJ Harvey.
Me, I like that kind of stuff, but I don’t draw a distinction between that and the higher-singing gothettes like Miranda Sex Garden circa-Fairytales of Slavery. All About Eve. Cocteau Twins. Dead Can Dance. Shelleyan Orphan.
Ooh, Cranes. Cowboy Junkies.
The genre you’re looking for is dark wave. In addition to the bands already mentioned, you should definitely check out Switchblade Symphony. Also, last.fm has a good list of acts tagged dark wave by their users, and it would be well worth your time to dig through it.
Edit: They don’t have a female vocalist, but the Cruxshadows are one of the biggest darkwave acts out there. You should definitely check them out.
I thought ‘This Mortal Coil’ was more in like the Black Tape for a Blue Girl vein? Diamanda Galas is good but not that familiar, love PJ Harvey and definitely what I’m talking about.
I’ll check some of those out Dead Can Dance is fucking awesome, I’ve heard Miranda Sex Garden but couldn’t plcae one of their tracks. Don’t really like the Cocteau Twins, and the other I’ve never head.
Love the Cranes, sort of what I am talking about but a little more on the indie-pop end of the spectrum, and you know as long as I’ve known about the Cowboy Junkies I don’t know their music much. I really should remedy that.
Yeah, Darkwave. I used to be up on all the finer distinctions of Goth/Industrial but haven’t been up on it for a while and my mind is losing some of them. Switchblade Symphony is a great act, I was going to tell Interface2x that I am listening to some of this Ayria stuff and it kind of reminds me of Switchblade Symphony. I used to hang out with their booking agent, I’ve seen them live like three times at least.
I hate the Cruxshadows music but they put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. One of the only times where a band I don’t really like sold me at their live show. I love the hot chick on the electric violin. 
But at the club I used to fake epileptic convulsions when Marilyn My Bitterness would come on. I really love to hate that song. The show I saw was in Albuquerque of all places and I realized I much prefer watching shows outside of NYC because the smaller crowds are more appreciative.
Darkwave, light industrial, synthpop, ethereal, and trip hop are some of my favorite genres, and I tend to listen to female vocalists, so this is right up my alley. Some stuff not yet mentioned:
Puracane
MGMT
Lizette &
Bat For Lashes
L’Âme Immortelle
Emilie Autumn
Rasputina
The Azoic
Jakalope
M83
Qntal
Elsiane
The Bastard Fairies
The Romanovs
Splashdown
Theatre of Tragedy
Hungry Lucy
Venus Hum
Chiasm
Sarah Fimm
The Birthday Massacre
Amanda Ghost
Daughter Darling
Wait, what? There’s definitely a female backing vocalist on the song “Birthday,” the one MP3 I have by them. Are you saying she’s not a regular member of the band? Or just that she’s never lead vocalist?
The lead vocalist is a male.
Aesiron Birthday Massacre just came up on my Collide Pandora station. It’s funny considering I was thinking I should check them out.
I have just recently filled in huge gaps in my Collide collection, and I see that they have drifted towards a distinctly Portishead sound, to my ears anyway. I have heard that a band called Cylab is very similar. Chainsuck has always reminded me of what you are looking for too. Wow, there is a tendency towards C’s.
I second Birthday Massacre and Switchblade Symphony as well as sending this list:
Strawberry Switchblade
Mephisto Walz
My Scarlet Life
Battery
Ivoux
Gitane Demone
Trance to the Sun
It varies - they’re more of a 4AD-based supergroup (like Black Tape are a Projekt-based supergroup), so do a range of styles, with quite a few excellent covers. Pity you don’t like the Cocteaus, the This Mortal Coil cover of Song to The Siren with the Cocteaus’ lead singer is generally considered excellent.
Lots of good recommendations here – I’d like to add Azam Ali (both her solo work and her work with the groups Niyaz and Vas are phenomenal). Replace the element of “industrial” with an element of “ethnic,” though – not quite synthy and dancy, but very sultry and rich, and in my mind I lump her in with the section on my CD shelf that contains Collide, Dead Can Dance, and Portishead.
Azam Ali - 41 Ways to Die
Azam Ali - Endless Reverie
Niyaz is decidedly out of the industrial/darkwave vein (it’s world/ethnic fusion) but still worth a listen if you appreciate the evocative textures and melodies of darkwave but are not married to the style (much like mid-to-later DCD).
Niyaz - Feraghi
Niyaz - Allahi Allah
Niyaz - Nahan
If you like those, then her earlier work with Vas is similar:
Vas - In the Garden of Souls
Vas - Mandara
Aaaannddd… I’m off to explore some of the recommendations offered upthread, myself!
I agree that’s a pretty good song. I just find her stream of consciousness babbling to be kind of irritating, and her voice is annoying. Also, everyone I know whose ever met her has said she’s a total primadonna. I used to hang out with Roli Mossiman from the Swans and I think it was him who told me a story about how she flipped out because someone read the lyrics to one of her songs. Either that or it was second hand through my friend who is friends with Sonic Youth. Anyway, I don’t remember the source, but the Cocteau Twins was always sort of whiney and incomprehensible to me.
Headrush042 I am checking out Azam Ali, so far it’s damn cool. It’s quite in line with what I am talking about. 41 Ways to Die is very synthy.
Based on your descriptions I am looking forward to listening to the rest. It sounds like you’ve got some stuff here that fits the bill but kicks it up a notch. If 41 Ways to Die is any indication you’re definitely speaking my language. 
Since everyone has provided me with some really good suggestions I am going to recommend a couple you might or might not know, both have Simon Posford behind them.
Binah - Crescent Suns
Shpongle - Once upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness
Not quite as poppy, but really good.