This week the L.A.-based Rhye partially came out of their mysterioso cloud and performed The Fall (from their debut album Woman) as their TV-debut on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.  Watch below as Toronto-born singer Michael Milosh properly sets the mood, backlit for obscurity, and backed sparingly by piano, cello and percussion.  Milosh is the latest in a long line of androgynous-sounding male singers that’s included everyone from Curtis Mayfield to Jimmy Scott to Boy George, to other purveyors of blue-eyed soul.  This version is shear beauty.  You heard it here last:  Rhye are going to be huge.

If you like what you hear/see, afterwards check out Rhye’s even-better, NPR-captured set at the candle-lit Le Poisson Rouge in NYC in April.  Check out an actual analog sextet stretching out in jazz-inflections, led by chief component and songwriter-producer Robin Hannibal.  Killing softly, but with occasional bullets, and sounding at times like mid-’70s band War at its best. But then add in Milosh’s vocals and you have a beast of a whole different color and gender.  A great new addition to the music scene.  They play Outside Lands Festival on August 9th in Golden Gate Park.

And finally, at bottom check out the band’s performance of 3 Days for KCRW.