Sorry I didn't get to this thread sooner...
James, were you angry, yet didn't know why?
If I ever reincarnate Sycamore (the musical deal), it will most likely be a spoken word deal...I dabbled a bit with it in the 90s. I still have a couple of tapes I made whilst living in DC and in my travels to Chicago...they're Rollins-type deals. I keep threatening to go to one of these hip little joints we have here in Philadelphia...
Don't unleash me.
The last 2 Recoil albums have been a mix of singing and spoken-word. You might like them Warch.
Unsound Methods and
Liquid are the two CDs...I like
Unsound Methods in particular. Doug McCarthy (formerly of Nitzer Ebb) does two incredible tracks ("Incubus" and "Stalker"); there is also a spoken worder out of NYC named Maggie Estep that does a couple of great tracks. And of course, Alan Wilder (formerly of Depeche Mode) creates perfect backdrops to the words.