# Music like Collide, Curve and Claire Voyant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282 "2009-08-22T04:23:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/1 "2009-08-22T04:23:34Z")
Anyone know of any music like these bands? Synth-y dance-y goth pop with chicks singing in sultry tones? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/2 "2009-08-22T04:31:12Z")
Crash Test Dummies? They all start with C… ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/3 "2009-08-22T04:34:25Z")
In the G’s there’s: – Garbage – Goldfrapp ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/4 "2009-08-22T04:38:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/5 "2009-08-22T05:18:03Z")
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](http://www.myspace.com/akisscouldbedeadly), **Laika** , **Shiny Toy Guns** , **Controller.Controller** , and **Enon**. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/6 "2009-08-22T07:39:21Z")
Hooverphonic Supreme Beings of Leisure (first album only) Solar Twins Blondie Snake River Conspiracy lots of Crystal Method songs DJ Rap Eurhythmics Snakefarm ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/7 "2009-08-22T14:47:11Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Anyone know of any music like these bands? Synth-y dance-y goth pop with chicks singing in sultry tones? Sounds like what you’re looking for is [Ayria](http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=AYRIA&sql=11:wzfixqusld6e~T0). Some decent songs from her: [Lovely Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4XmqHEhBc) [Analog Trash](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rp0knujDVU) [Bad List](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-5HlQkmMIo) [1,000 Transmissions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UklMcu-kNYk) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/8 "2009-08-22T14:51:05Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Goldfrapp is a good one though not quite upbeat enough. Depends on the album. “Supernature” sounds like what you’d like. Songs: [Ooh La La](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEzPgXOaHg), [Lovely 2 C U](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxCG-rERjs) (awful title, good song), and [Ride a White Horse](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_FH5h-GQQs). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/9 "2009-08-22T15:07:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/10 "2009-08-22T16:21:29Z")
The genre you’re looking for is [dark wave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwave). In addition to the bands already mentioned, you should definitely check out Switchblade Symphony. Also, last.fm has a good [list](http://www.last.fm/tag/darkwave/artists) 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. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/11 "2009-08-22T16:44:32Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Some This Mortal Coil tracks might do. Also, Diamanda Galas. PJ Harvey. 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. > [@](#): > > 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. 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. > [@](#): > > Ooh, Cranes. Cowboy Junkies. 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. > [@ultrafilter](#): > > The genre you’re looking for is [dark wave](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkwave). In addition to the bands already mentioned, you should definitely check out Switchblade Symphony. Also, last.fm has a good [list](http://www.last.fm/tag/darkwave/artists) of acts tagged dark wave by their users, and it would be well worth your time to dig through it. 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. > [@](#): > > 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 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/12 "2009-08-22T17:20:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/13 "2009-08-22T17:21:24Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > 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. 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? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/14 "2009-08-22T17:24:20Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@Mervyn\_Pumpkinhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mervyn_Pumpkinhead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/15 "2009-08-23T02:59:39Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/16 "2009-08-23T15:24:33Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I thought ‘This Mortal Coil’ was more in like the Black Tape for a Blue Girl vein? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/17 "2009-08-23T20:17:22Z")
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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fghAFDMvswQ) [Azam Ali - Endless Reverie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRT7L3913BU) 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_wSkwwIOUM&feature=related) [Niyaz - Allahi Allah](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91pMQfuZf04&feature=fvw) [Niyaz - Nahan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up5PW2iorpM&feature=related) If you like those, then her earlier work with Vas is similar: [Vas - In the Garden of Souls](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxrLIZpuvo) [Vas - Mandara](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V4hGTFQCtY&feature=related) Aaaannddd… I’m off to explore some of the recommendations offered upthread, myself! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/18 "2009-08-23T21:36:31Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/19 "2009-08-23T21:37:49Z")
**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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282/20 "2009-08-23T21:41:23Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-like-collide-curve-and-claire-voyant/507282.md?page=2)