I intended to post about this a few days ago, but just never got the time to finish... here's what I'd started writing about it:

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My first reaction is that it's a mod UK trip/hop electro-pop type artist (like Moby?). Then after a few minutes I'm thinking the vocals might be Marianne Faithfull... I know we had a discussion about her last year, but I'm not even sure she's still recording (or alive... LOL). I make that wild guess mainly on the vocal, as I'm not plugged into the style of music on the CD too much.

I'd give that guess a 50% chance to be correct, but after the lyrics further in about Nico et al (I'm pretty sure she is dead), I'd raise the MF guess up to 90%. It's not that bad a CD, although I probably wouldn't get it myself. There is one very good cut though, a more traditional singer/songwriter type melody, nicely done. (and another hint that perhaps my guess is OK).
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I purposely hadn't read any of the earlier threads on this subject, but did read this one today. If others also knew who it was, it's understandable because of the unique voice. I do have Broken English, although she sounds quite different there from her earlier vocals when she was a cute pixie-eyed chick. BTW, her "Sister Morphine" 45 is a classic (35 yrs old). A top-10 all-time anti-drug song. It's as haunting a song as another young British artist of that same year, Nick Drake, who wouldn't get (really) noticed till decades later.

Your background info on the other artists involved in making the album makes sense now, as the style is certainly a more modern tech-music. It's one reason I was doubtful at first to associate her voice with that music.

One nice cut that I'll be revisiting again in the future... that's a lot better than many of the discs I actually paid $ for this year... LOL.

Thanks Jim.