Breakaway - Postcarious (gorgeous experimental synth pop with operatic vox)

http://breakawaybreakaway.bandcamp.com/album/postcarious

from minneapolis, kinda broke out at the recent heliotrope festival

seems like some ILMers would love this

this is good! really good!

yeah i was kinda blown away! only $5 too!

first track i was unsure, second track blew me the fuck away

track 5 on some embarrassing thom yorke tip but otherwise yeah still good

Really interesting to see a very classical-sounding falsettist translating their vocal chops to stuff like this

absolutely

track 5 was the only misstep; everything else has been lovely

less opera than AnCo tbh

that said I'm kind of into a lot of this

Love to hear anco try to hit some of those notes

Tracked down a couple of live video performances and dude's voice is much more obviously classical-countertenory in them

Also if you take out the percussion tracks, most of his songs sound like 20th century art songs to me

What's countertenors?
I guess I just used operatic in the sense that there is a level of training and skill going on that's not just indie rock

I thought of Klaus Nomi too

A countertenor is a man who sings primarily/exclusively in the female range, nowadays usually via falsetto. In common modern voice parlance, think of it as a guy singing alto or soprano.

see: David Daniels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1e49KLXNU

Here's someone doing a historical analysis of high-signing men via a blog post:

http://fireandair.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/another-attempt-to-clarify-the-types-of-high-male-voice/

Here's an NPR article talking about some of the countertenors out there in the classical sphere today:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2010/11/30/131701596/when-a-man-sings-like-a-woman-a-countertenor-convergence

lol "high-signing" way to proofread

ah cool thanks
anyway this is one of the more interesting records i've heard this year
seems to be almost totally unknown even in minneapolis

found a video....just looks like a regular kid in a pussy riot shirt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asco1JaNiNs

the last 2 minutes of "You Can Understand" are so amazing/nuts

thx for the bump

i hope you like it! i wish i could get this in the hands of a pitchfork tastemaker

I'm really digging it!

cool video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDdrLanToCU

thx for the reminder on this

that sounds great....
reminds me a little of DVA, who I just discovered thanks to the 2014 - Favourite Unheralded Albums thread....

Late on this but yes, quite lovely.

imago alert!

Mr. Breakaway does a guest vocal on the last movement of the sidelong suite "The Tower of Trennald" by Thunderbolt Pagoda, a local heavy psych band that has a real mellotron and errthing

it's not till the end but his entrance is p grand

http://soundcloud.com/g-rard-boissy/the-tower-of-trennald

this is really cool, his voice works so well in such a different context

new album 2016, new video now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv4DYcfAeQc

I am just now listening to the 2016 album and it starts out bananas

http://maskmagazine.com/the-confusion-issue/work/breakaway