Post by IhateMana on Nov 17, 2019 20:49:54 GMT
Main Associated Acts: maudlin of the Well (1996 - 2003, 2008), Kayo Dot (2003 - Present), Tartar Lamb (2006 - Present), Vaura (2009 - Present), Asva (2010 - Present), Stern (2012 - Present), Bloodmist (2016 - Present), Piggy Black Cross (2018 - Present), Oixisha (2020 - Present), Alora Crucible (2021 - Present)
Vocal Range: E2 - G♯5
{Vocal Summary}One of the underground's most prolific and vital artists, Toby Driver is best-known as the front man for avant-garde metal group maudlin of the Well and Avant-everything else band Kayo Dot. As well as these projects, Driver is also involved in several other underground music projects, incorporating influences ranging from progressive and black metal, chamber music, jazz, post-punk/new-wave and classical music. As off the wall and chaotic as his music sounds, Driver's music is actually very tightly composed.
As a vocalist, while less than spectacular when it comes to technique and overall intonation, Driver is very versatile. He will perform any number of styles from clean singing, falsetto and mezza-voce to wicked metal shrieks (and there was also this one time where he sang with his larynx and somehow convinced one of his bandmates to put their tongue and lips against his and articulate for him). In more recent years, having seemingly made an effort to move away from screaming as much as possible, Driver's voice has adopted a much more comfortable-sounding placement, with a stronger timbre and all-round better support and resonance, particularly on his most recent records.
As a vocalist, while less than spectacular when it comes to technique and overall intonation, Driver is very versatile. He will perform any number of styles from clean singing, falsetto and mezza-voce to wicked metal shrieks (and there was also this one time where he sang with his larynx and somehow convinced one of his bandmates to put their tongue and lips against his and articulate for him). In more recent years, having seemingly made an effort to move away from screaming as much as possible, Driver's voice has adopted a much more comfortable-sounding placement, with a stronger timbre and all-round better support and resonance, particularly on his most recent records.
Significant High Notes
G♯5 ("Get Out of the Tower")
G5 ("The Anxiety Wheel", "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)", "Ocellated God" Live @ St. Vitus Bar, Brooklyn NYC 11/07/2012, "Spectrum of One Colour")
F♯5 ("Cold Twisted Aisle", "Get Out of the Tower", "Ocellated God", "Vision Adjustment to Another Wavelength")
F5 ("The Antique", "The Anxiety Wheel", "Aura on an Asylum Wall", "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)", "The Manifold Curiousity" Live at the YMCA Cambridge, MA 23/06/2004, Spirit Photography")
E5 ("Birds", "Cold Twisted Aisle", "Gemini Becoming the Tripod", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Zlida Caosgi (To Water the Earth)")
E♭5 ("The Antique", "Crown-in-the-Muck", "An Eye for a Lie", "Floodgate", "Get Out of the Tower", "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)", "The Manifold Curiosity", "Marathon", "The Necklace", "Spectrum of One Colour", "Whisper Ineffable" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011)
D5 ("Aura on an Asylum Wall", "Cold Twisted Aisle", "Epipsychidion", "Gleam in Ranks", "Heaven and Weak", "Ocellated God", "Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Spirit Photography", "Thief", "Twins Eating fer de Lance", "Vanshing Act in Blinding Gray", "Wayfarer")
C♯5 ("And He Built Him a Boat" Live 25/06/2015, "The Anxiety Wheel", "Beauty", "Birds", "Brethren of the Cross", "Crown-in-the-Muck", "Epipsychidion", "An Eye for a Lie", "Floodgate", "The Manifold Curiosity", "Midnight Mystic Rise and Fall", "The Necklace", "Rite of Goetic Evocation", "Spectrum of One Colour", "Thief", "Twins Eating fer de Lance", "Vision Adjustment to Another Wavelength", "Zlida Caosgi (To Water the Earth)")
C5 ("Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying", "The Antique", "Bizarre Flowers / A Violent Mist", "Get Out of the Tower", "Gleam in Ranks", "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)", "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Roller Skating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)", "New World Order Rising", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Turbine, Hook and Haul", "The Wait of the World", "Wayfarer")
B4 ("Catharsis of Sea-Sleep and Dreaming Shrines", "Come Back When There's Nothing Left", "An Eye for a Lie", "Lethe / Calonytion Girl" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011, "New World Order Rising", "Ocean Cumulonimbus", "Pondering a Wall", "The Something Opal", "Spectrum of One Colour", "Undine and Underwater Flowers", "The Useless Ladder")
B♭4 ("The Antique", "Birds", "Blue Lambency Downward", "Brethren of the Cross", "Clelia Walking", "The Ferryman", "Gemini Becoming the Tripod", "Library Subterranean", "Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way", "Monstrously Low Tide", "The Mortality of Doves", "Vanshing Act in Blinding Gray")
A4 ("Blasphemy: A Prophecy", "Blue Lambency Downward", "Epipsychidion", "Ferocious Weights", "Gleam in Ranks", "Ocean Cumulonimbus", "___On Limpid Form", "Passing the River", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Pondering a Wall", "The Something Opal", "Stained Glass", "Three Peaks", "The Wait of the World", "Wayfarer")
G♯4 ("470 Nanometers", "All the Pain in All the Wide World", "The Awkward Wind Wheel", "Brethren of the Cross", "Calonyction Girl", "Cartogram Out of Phase", "Clover Garland Island", "An Eye for a Lie", "Gamma Knife", "He Who Breathes the Soil", "The Knot", "Library Subterranean", "The Lugubrious Library Loft", "The Manifold Curiosity", "Marked", "Midnight Mystic Rise and Fall", "The Mortality of Doves", "Polyimage of Known Exits: Movement 3.5" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011, "Presences of Absences", "The Scarlet Whore / Her Dealings with the Initiate", "Smoke-Scented Mycelium", "The Useless Ladder")
G4 ("Along Cthamaline Stars" Live @ Roulette 17/03/2017, "The Awkward Wind Wheel", "Bizarre Flowers / A Violent Mist", "Blasphemy: A Prophecy", "Blue Lambency Downward", "Cartogram Out of Phase", "Clover Garland Island", "Gamma Knife", "Geography", "Glyph", "New World Order Rising", "Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22", "Right Hand is the One I Want", "Rings of Earth", "Scaffold of Digital Snow" Live @ Roulette, 17/03/2017, "Sleep is a Curse", "Spirit Photography", "Symmetrical Arizona", "Turbine, Hook and Haul", "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)")
F♯4 ("470 Nanometers", "Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying", "The Assassination of Adam", "Calonyction Girl", "Cold Twisted Aisle", "Craven's Dawn", "Eptaceros", "Immortelle and Paper Caravelle", "The Knight Errant", "Marked", "Midnight Mystic Rise and Fall", "Parsifal", "Polyimage of Known Exits: 4th Movement", "Presences of Absences", "Rose Quartz Turning to Glass", "The Second Operation (Lunar Water)", "Sleep is a Curse", "Smoke-Scented Mycelium", "Stained Glass", "Thief", "Whisper Ineffable")
F4 ("All the Pain in All the Wide World", "Along Cthamaline Stars" Live @ Roulette 17/03/2017, "Amalia's Theme", "Amaranth the Peddler", "Cartogram Out of Phase", "Cold Twisted Aisle", "A Curve that to an Angle Turn'd", "Don't Touch Dead Animals", "Eptaceros", "Geography", "Heaven and Weak", "Ferocious Weights", "The Knot", "Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way", "Magnetism", "Passing the River", "Rings of Earth", "Rose Quartz Turning to Glass", "Vanshing Act in Blinding Gray", "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)")
E4 ("Abyss Hinge II: The Shrinking Armature", "Avignon", "Blight of River-Systems", "Come Back When There's Nothing Left", "The Deepest Hole", "Gamma Knife", "Glyph", "Longtime Disturbance on the Miracle Mile", "The Lugubrious Library Loft", "Marked", "Parsifal", "Polyimage of Known Exits: Movement 3.5" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011, "Right Hand is the One I Want", "The Scarlet Whore / Her Dealings with the Initiate", "The Something Opal", "Turbine, Hook and Haul", "Undine and Underwater Flowers")
Significant Low Notes
D3 ("Aura on an Asylum Wall", "Blasphemy: A Prophecy", "Boys on the Hill", "Eptaceros", "Gamma Knife", "Girl with a Watering Can", "Heaven and Weak", "Immortelle and Paper Caravelle", "The Knot", "Lethe", "Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way", "Marid's Gift of Art", "New World Order Rising", "___On Limpid Form", "Passing the River", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Right Hand is the One I Want", "Scaffold of Digital Snow" Live @ Roulette, 17/03/2017, "Uncovering the Gift", "Undine and Underwater Flowers")
C♯3 ("470 Nanometers", "All the Pain in All the Wide World", "Amalia's Theme", "Beauty", "Craven's Dawn", "Library Subterranean", "The Manifold Curiosity", "Marked", "Midnight Mystic Rise and Fall", "Mirror Water, Lightning Night", "Polyimage of Known Exits: Movement 3.5" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011, "Presences of Absences", "The Scarlet Whore / Her Dealings with the Initiate", "Stained Glass")
C3 ("And He Built Him a Boat", "Barriers Hymn", "The Bleeding Month", "Clelia Walking", "Gemini Becoming the Tripod", "Geography", "Girl with a Watering Can", "He Who Breathes the Soil", "Heaven and Weak", "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)", "Longtime Disturbance on the Miracle Mile", "Monstrously Low Tide", "New World Order Rising", "Offramp Cycle, Pattern 22", "___On Limpid Form", "Rings of Earth", "Right Hand is the One I Want", "Swarming", "Symmetrical Arizona", "Uncovering the Gift")
B2 ("Avignon", "Beauty", "Marid's Gift of Art", "The Ocean, The Kingdom and The Temptation", "A Pitcher of Summer", "Stained Glass", "Three Peaks", "Turbine, Hook and Haul", "The Useless Ladder", "Vanshing Act in Blinding Gray")
B♭2 ("And He Built Him a Boat", "Barriers Hymn", "Birth Pains of Astral Projection", "A Conception Pathetic", "Don't Touch Dead Animals", "The Knot", "Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)", "Rings of Earth")
A2 ("Blight of River-Systems", "The Curve that to an Angle Turn'd", "Don't Touch Dead Animals", "The First Matter (Saturn in the Guise of Sadness)", "Girl with a Watering Can", "Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way", "Passing the River", "Polyimage of Known Exits: Movement 3.5" Live at Club RE, Kraków 29/01/2011, "Pondering a Wall", "The Scarlet Whore / Her Dealings with the Initiate", "Sleep is a Curse")
G♯2 ("An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost", "An Eye for a Lie", "The Second Operation (Lunar Water)")
G2 ("Amaranth the Peddler", "Birth Pains of Astral Projection", "Catharsis of Sea-Sleep and Dreaming Shrines", "Crown-in-the-Muck", "The First Matter (Saturn in the Guise of Sadness)", "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)", "The Ocean, The Kingdom and The Temptation", "Turbine, Hook and Haul")
F♯2 ("An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost", "The Second Operation (Lunar Water)")
F2 ("Amaranth the Peddler", "The Curve that to an Angle Turn'd", "The Wait of the World")
E2 ("Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way")
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Italics marks non-melodic notes
Underlines mark notes found on backing vocals, harmonies or otherwise obscured in the mix.
Boldface marks notes that are notable examples of this singer’s capabilities
Blue marks soft/disconnected falsetto notes.
Green marks heavily distorted/harsh notes.
{questionable notes}
G♯5 ("The Manifold Curiosity" [5], "Rose Quartz Turning to Glass" [5])
E5 ("An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" [2]
B4 ("The Second Operation (Lunar Water)" [2])
G♯4 ("Brown Light Upon Us" [2])
E4 "An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" [2])
C♯3 ("The Crystal Margin" [2][3])
F♯2 ("The Awkward Wind Wheel" [2])
F2 ("Floodgate" [4], "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)" [1])
E2 ("The Ocean, The Kingdom and The Temptation" [1])
D2 ("The Useless Ladder" [2], "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)" [5])
C♯2 ("Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way")
C2 ("The Ferryman" [2][3])
B1 ("Pondering a Wall" [1][3])
G♯5 ("The Manifold Curiosity" [5], "Rose Quartz Turning to Glass" [5])
E5 ("An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, the Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" [2]
B4 ("The Second Operation (Lunar Water)" [2])
G♯4 ("Brown Light Upon Us" [2])
E4 "An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost" [2])
C♯3 ("The Crystal Margin" [2][3])
F♯2 ("The Awkward Wind Wheel" [2])
F2 ("Floodgate" [4], "Kandu vs. Corky (Horrorca)" [1])
E2 ("The Ocean, The Kingdom and The Temptation" [1])
D2 ("The Useless Ladder" [2], "Void in Virgo (The Nature of Sacrifice)" [5])
C♯2 ("Lost Souls on Lonesome's Way")
C2 ("The Ferryman" [2][3])
B1 ("Pondering a Wall" [1][3])
{Album Ranges}
maudlin of the Well
(1999) My Fruit Psychobells… A Seed Combustible: G2 - B4
(2001) Bath: G2 - G4 - D5
(2001) Leaving Your Body Map: F2 - A2 - C5 - D5
(2009) Part the Second: F♯2 - E♭5
Kayo Dot
Studio Albums
(2003) Choirs of the Eye: B2 - D5 - F5
(2006) Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue: F2 - D5 - E5 - F5
(2008) Blue Lambency Downward: B2 - C3 - B♭4 - B4
(2010) Coyote: Not very low - G♯4
(2012) Gamma Knife: C♯3 - G♯4 - C♯5 - F♯5
(2013) Hubardo: F2 - A4 - D5 - F♯5
(2014) Coffins on Io: C3 - B♭4 - F5
(2016) Plastic House on Base of Sky: B♭2 - G♯4
(2019) Blasphemy: E2 - G2 - G♯2 - C♯5 - E♭5
(2021) Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike: E3 - C♯5 - E♭5 - G5 - G♯5
EPs
(2012) Stained Glass: C♯3 - A4
Tartar Lamb
(2007) Six Metonymies: N/A
(2011) Polyimage of Known Exits: - A blue F♯4 is the only thing in the thread
Solo
(2005) In the L..L..Library Lofft: G2 - G♯4 - G5
(2017) Madonnawhore: A2 - F♯4
(2018) They Are the Shield: C♯3 - G♯4
Alora Crucible
(2021) Thymiamatascension: B♭2 - D4 (only "Barriers Hymn" has vocals)
maudlin of the Well
(1999) My Fruit Psychobells… A Seed Combustible: G2 - B4
(2001) Bath: G2 - G4 - D5
(2001) Leaving Your Body Map: F2 - A2 - C5 - D5
(2009) Part the Second: F♯2 - E♭5
Kayo Dot
Studio Albums
(2003) Choirs of the Eye: B2 - D5 - F5
(2006) Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue: F2 - D5 - E5 - F5
(2008) Blue Lambency Downward: B2 - C3 - B♭4 - B4
(2010) Coyote: Not very low - G♯4
(2012) Gamma Knife: C♯3 - G♯4 - C♯5 - F♯5
(2013) Hubardo: F2 - A4 - D5 - F♯5
(2014) Coffins on Io: C3 - B♭4 - F5
(2016) Plastic House on Base of Sky: B♭2 - G♯4
(2019) Blasphemy: E2 - G2 - G♯2 - C♯5 - E♭5
(2021) Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike: E3 - C♯5 - E♭5 - G5 - G♯5
EPs
(2012) Stained Glass: C♯3 - A4
Tartar Lamb
(2007) Six Metonymies: N/A
(2011) Polyimage of Known Exits: - A blue F♯4 is the only thing in the thread
Solo
(2005) In the L..L..Library Lofft: G2 - G♯4 - G5
(2017) Madonnawhore: A2 - F♯4
(2018) They Are the Shield: C♯3 - G♯4
Alora Crucible
(2021) Thymiamatascension: B♭2 - D4 (only "Barriers Hymn" has vocals)