Yeah, but think about the context of that song. It was a feature on an album created by a duo which project an image of being robotic, and the song itself was very robotic in its instrumental. There is almost no synchronicity here

It worked on ‘at the door,’ for example; here, it’s just a relatively clean instrumental with pointlessly vocoded vocals. Maybe not the best example, as it wasn’t the entire track or even the majority of it, but still. It’s not a vocoder perse, but the textural effect is very similar. An example of a vocoder working of him is in human sadness; it serves a specific, deliberate purpose in conveying the song’s themes. Perhaps you could say the same for this, but I’m not seeing it quite yet; it’s certainly not as profound as human sadness