I look for a center of permanent gravity

I just recently stumbled upon the long and varied career of Franco Battiato, and I'm not really sure how much of it I'm going to like. Seems the general trajectory is from proggy/experimental electronic to opera by way of eccentric pop. An album from that middle period is what caught my ear. Maybe it's how the singing seems almost goofily off from the music. Guess that's what happens when one's inner opera singer struggles to bust out of the rock band.

Franco Battiato - Centro Di Gravità Permanente