Christian Church is no stranger to strange experimentation and dark pop music. As one half of Alligator Indian he’s been honing his peculiar songwriting abilities for the past several years to a very interesting degree. Now it seems he is branching out even further and applying his arsenal to a solo project called XIAN INTL.

While the fingerprints of Alligator Indian can still be found on his debut track “Patriarch Angel,” the single is very much Christian’s own show. His voice (though altered and auto-tuned) is front and center and it slides up and down a weird R&B melody. In fact, the single would be downright conventional were it not for the fact that Christian dresses it up in chilly electronics, bizarre samples, and general eeriness.