Jonathan Higgs (3,668 views)

[mole55]

Name: Jonathan Higgs

Associated Acts: Everything Everything (2006-)

Vocal Range: G♯2-E5

Significant High Notes:
E5: "Big Climb", "Blast Doors", "Qwerty Finger"
E♭5: "Hiawatha Doomed", "Good Shot, Good Soldier", "Photoshop Handsome", "Supernormal"
D5: "Breadwinner", "Blast Doors", "Can't Do", "Carry Me Home" _{Gloworm cover}, "Desire", "Distant Past", "Hiawatha Doomed", "NASA Is On Your Side", "The Peaks", "Qwerty Finger", "Regret", "Run The Numbers", "Schoolin'", "Torso Of The Week", "Two For Nero", "Warm Healer", "Weights", “Yuppie Supper”
C♯5: "The Actor", "A.D.", "Bad Friday", "Come Alive Diana", "Cough Cough" _{Glastonbury 2013,} "Don't Ask Me To Beg", "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" _{The Korgis cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2012}, "Hell Yeah" _{Live w/Nothing But Thieves Manchester 2017,} "I Believe It Now", "Ivory Tower", "Jennifer", "Kemosabe", "Making Some New Sense", "Planets", "Suffragette Suffragette", "The House Is Dust", "Wizard Talk", "Weights", "Yuppie Supper"
C5: ""A.D.", "Arch Enemy", "Armourland", "Born Under A Meteor", "City Song", "Cut UP!", "Distrikt!", "DNA Dump", "Don't Try", "Don't Try _{Everything Everything Remix}", "Final Form", "Hapsburg Lippp", "Hiawatha Doomed", "I Want A Love Like This", "Justice", "Luddites and Lambs", "Making Some New Sense", "MY KZ, UR BF", "NASA Is On Your Side", "No Reptiles", "Photoshop Handsome", "Riot On The Ward", "Run The Numbers", "Schoolin'", "Supernormal", "Teletype", "To The Blade", "Treasure Set", "TV Dog", "White Whale", "Wild Guess", "Your Money, My Summer", "Zero Pharoah"
B4: "Awe/Arc", "Big Climb", "Big Game", "Brainchild", "Choice Mountain",  "Cold Reactor", "Come Alive Diana", "Dagger's Edge", "Distant Past", "DNA Dump", "Duet", "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" _{The Korgis cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2012}, "Enter The Mirror", "Final Form", "Hell Yeah" _{Live w/Nothing But Thieves Manchester 2017}, "The House Is Dust", "I Believe It Now", "It Was A Monstering", "Kevin's Car", "Leave The Engine Room", "Luddites and Lambs", "Making Some New Sense", "The Mariana" _{Live on BBC Radio 5 Live 2018}, "Metroland Is Burning", "Moonlight", "Only As Good As My God", "The Peaks", "Photoshop Handsome", "Pizza Boy",  "Qwerty Finger", "Shark Week", "Stay With Me", "Tin (The Manhole)", "Two For Nero", "Weights", "With Every Heartbeat" _{Robyn cover, Like A Version}
B♭4: "_Arc_", "Arch Enemy", "Armourland", "Black Hyena", "Buddy, Come Over", "Canary", "Carry Me Home" _{Gloworm cover}, "Cough Cough", "Don't Ask Me To Beg", "Don't Let It Bring You Down _{Neil Young cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2017}", "The End of The Contender", "Feet For Hands", "A Fever Dream"," Hapsburg Lippp", "HEX", "In Birdsong", "Kemosabe", "Leave The Engine Room", "The Mad Stone", "Night of the Long Knives", "No Plan", "Planets", "President Heartbeat", "To The Blade", "Treasure Set", "Schoolin''', "Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread", "Software Greatman", "Supernormal", "Undrowned", "Wild Guess"
A4: "The Actor", "Cough Cough", "Dagger's Edge", "Don't Let It Bring You Down _{Neil Young cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2017}", "Don't Try", "The End of The Contender", "Enter The Mirror", "Feet For Hands", "HEX", "The Kids Are Obese", "Lost Powers", "Magnetophone", "The Mariana", "Moonlight", "NASA Is On Your Side", "Pressure", "Put Me Together", "Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread", "Suffragette Suffragette", "R U Happy?", "Radiant", "Regret", "Shark Week", "Tin (The Manhole)", "Violent Sun", "What's My Name?" _{Rihanna cover}, "The Wheel (Is Turning Now)", "Wild Guess"
G♯4: "_Arc_", "Arch Enemy", "Buddy, Come Over", "Canary", "City Song", "Desire", "Don't Ask Me To Beg", "Duet", "A Fever Dream", "Get To Heaven", "It Was A Monstering", "Ivory Tower", "Kevin's Car", "The Lord of the Trapdoor", "Lost Powers", "My Computer", "New Deep", "No Plan", "Only As Good As My God", "Photoshop Handsome", "Planets", "Qwerty Finger", "Shark Week", "Stay With Me", "To The Blade (To The Bone)", "TV Dog", "The Witness"
G4: "Big Climb", "Brainchild", "Buddy, Come Over", "Cut UP!", "Don't Let It Bring You Down _{Neil Young cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2017}", "HEX", "The House Is Dust", "I Want A Love Like This", "Justice", "Metroland Is Burning", "NASA Is On Your Side", "Night of the Long Knives", "Regret", "Schoolin'", "Supernormal", "Teletype", "Violent Sun", "Weights", "White Whale"
F♯4: "The Actor", "Canary", "Carry Me Home" _{Gloworm cover}, "Come Alive Diana", "DNA Dump", "Don't Ask Me To Beg", "Duet", "Enter The Mirror", "Feet For Hands", "I Believe It Now", "In Birdsong", "Ivory Tower", "The Kids Are Obese", "Leave The Engine Room", "Leviathan", "The Lord of the Trapdoor", "The Mad Stone", "President Heartbeat", "Qwerty Finger", "Radiant", "Shark Week", "Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread", "Supernormal", "To The Blade", "Weights", "With Every Heartbeat" _{Robyn cover, Like A Version"}
F4: "A.D.", "Black Hyena", "Canary", "City Song", "Cough Cough", "Don't Try", "The End of The Contender", "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" _{The Korgis cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2012}, "Hiawatha Doomed", "HEX", "It Was A Monstering", "Lost Powers", "Luddites and Lambs", "My Computer", "MY KZ, UR BF", "Natural's Not In It"_{Gang of Four cover}, "No Plan", "No Reptiles", "Planets", "R U Happy?", "Warm Healer", "What's My Name?" _{Rihanna cover,} "Wild Guess"

Significant Low Notes:
E3: "Big Climb", "Cold Reactor", "Come Alive Diana", "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" _{The Korgis cover, Live at BBC Maida Vale 2012}, "Final Form", "The Mariana", "Only As Good As My God", "Pizza Boy", "Regret", "Radiant", "Shark Week", "TV Dog"
E♭3: "Carry Me Home" _{Gloworm cover}, "To The Blade", "The Witness"
D3: "Undrowned", "We Sleep In Pairs", "Weights", "Wild Guess", "With Every Heartbeat" _{Robyn cover, Like A Version}
C♯3: "Awe/Arc", "Dagger's Edge", "Don't Ask Me To Beg", "Kevin's Car", "Making Some New Sense", "Qwerty Finger", "To The Blade (To The Bone)"
C3: "Buddy, Come Over", "Distrikt!", "Final Form", "Natural's Not In It"_{Gang of Four cover}, "No Reptiles"
B2: "Hell Yeah" _{Live w/Nothing But Thieves Manchester 2017,} "Get To Heaven", "Metroland Is Burning", "Shark Week", "Stay With Me", "Tin (The Manhole)"
B♭2: "Kevin's Car", "Planets", "We Sleep In Pairs"
A2: "Feet For Hands", "Jennifer", "President Heartbeat"
G♯2: "Bad Friday"


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• Blue denotes falsetto and whistle notes.
• Boldface denotes outstanding passages.
• Italics denote non-melodic and spoken notes.
• Underlines denote obscured and background notes.


Questionable Notes:

D5: "Don't Try Everything Everything Remix"_[4]

C5: "The Witness"_[5]

B♭4: "Your Money, My Summer"_[5]

A4: "The Kids Are Obese" _[5]
G♯4: "Riot On The Ward" _[4]


E3: "Arch Enemy"_[4]
D3: "Night of the Long Knives"_[5]
F#2: "Spring/Sun/Winter/Dread"_[5]
E2: "Wizard Talk"_[5]

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1. Yelps, shrieks, and trills in high range
2. Aimless whistle notes
3. Poor-quality low notes (weak vocal fry, short dips, spoken passages)
4. Possible pitch-shifting
5. Identity (possibly sung by someone else, or might be an instrument)

Album/EP Ranges:
Man Alive (2010): B2-G♯4-E5
Arc (2013): A2-G4-D5
Get To Heaven (2015): B2-G♯4-E5 (A2 in bonus track)
A Fever Dream (2017): F3-G♯4-E♭5
A Deeper Sea (2018): E3-G4-A4-D5
Re-Animator (2020): Bb2-G♯4-C♯5-E5 
Raw Data Feel (2022): G♯2-G♯4-C♯5

Mountainhead (2024): C3-G♯4-C5-C♯5 (B2 in bonus track)

_{(Next thing to do is to go back through every album and make sure the standards are consistent (and maybe raise the low note threshold to F3 so every album is included?)}

[Rodney Blazershorts]

I see that you've come back to update this thread once again lol. How much of the notewatching would you say is complete at this point?

[mole55]

Mar 24, 2024 20:47:22 GMT Rodney Blazershorts said:

I see that you've come back to update this thread once again lol. How much of the notewatching would you say is complete at this point?

Oops very late response, but I'd say pretty much complete. He doesn't do much in the way of extra high or low notes live, so looking for them is probably a bit pointless.

I want to go through and check everything (especially their older albums I don't listen to as regularly and notewatched first) because idk if I've been applying the same standard to everything across however long I've been doing this, go through and clear up various small errors with subtext and the like, and also add an F3 low notes section so every album represented there. I'll hopefully be doing that in the next few weeks.

[haeksk（ハクサク）]

the kemosabe bold sounds black

[Rodney Blazershorts]

I actually think most of the stuff written in blue would be fine as black notes. Not that he doesn't use soft falsetto a lot, but he uses a lot more connection on top notes than you would believe from the OP.

[VocalDudeGuy]

Mans was allergic to the second octave in the later 2010s

[mole55]

May 19, 2024 18:15:57 GMT Rodney Blazershorts said:

I actually think most of the stuff written in blue would be fine as black notes. Not that he doesn't use soft falsetto a lot, but he uses a lot more connection on top notes than you would believe from the OP.

I agree, there's a lot of connection on the top notes. However, he definitely has a divide between say, the Only As Good As My God G#4 and the Kemosabe Bb4 (especially live, it sounds a bit more falsetto-y). He's also referred to his high notes as falsetto (or at the very least, a separate register) before. Similar thing to Matt Bellamy, and I know that was A Whole Debate in that thread.