The Leanover

I'm not sure how best to describe the vocalizing of Sue Tompkins, singer for Life Without Buildings. I guess I'd have to say the words and their performance speak to the melodic side of any debates about whether song lyrics are best understood in terms of the soundscape of a song or for their semantic messages. The lyrics, though have a strange accumulative effect that shows them to be more than melodic placeholders. The weaving of "wassups" into various segments of the song creates a kind of phatic connection for the listener. A connection picked up on with the "contact" punctuations, though I have no idea what is meant by budokan worp.