ian curtis and the american twang

i was listening to lwtua and noticed that in certain parts of the song mr curtis "seems" to have a bit of an american twang,especially when he sings apart,sound like he's singing apard too me! anyone else out there noticed this,or am i just regards

isnt the story that rob gave him an album of frank sinatra to listen to before recording so he could get a kind of crooning vocal?

I thought that he was listening to Old Blue Eyes in prep for Closer.

I heard it was for LWTUA also...maybe the b-side version.

I'm not familiar with the regional accent of Manchester or the variety of accents in the UK for that matter but I always thought Ian Curtis's (singing) enunciation and pronounciation of words was rather American (at least compared to Sumner). E.g., he tends to stress but not roll "r"s whereas British pronounciation (at least the sort taught at their former colonies) tends to mute them.

It seems pretty obvious when you compare their pronounciations for "apart."

It came about as a result of the varispeed used in the studio to process his vocals, making them sound more baritone. The side effect of such electronic tampering was to make Ian sound like he was American - I'm sure Curtis didn't object to this, as it makes his crooning sound rather akin to Lou Reed.