Mark E Smith is totally wired. Yard Act make hits. Dry Cleaning are looking for their missing tortoise. But what's the connection here? Instead of a sung melody, we have vocalists opting to speak their lyrics into the mic. From the political to the absurd, this is Sprechgesang.

This guide is a conducive but not conclusive introduction of the genre in all of its iterations, and its resurgence within recent years in the UK.