His voice is much stronger now than it ever was in the Pixies. As he himself said "I am learning to be a singer and not a shouter".
_____________________________________________________________________ "...love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit."
I don't know about that but on a radio show in the Spring of 2003, he said he had been working with an opera singer guy.
_____________________________________________________________________ "...love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit."