What voice part IS Adam Young?

So, I am a HUGE Owl City fan. The first thing I looked up when I started learning guitar was an Owl City song, and I was very disappointed that I couldn't play it because at the time I didn't know how to read guitar tabs. Now that I can, most of the songs in my tabs folder are Owl City songs, or Sky Sailing (which is basically Owl City except in acoustic rather than electronic medium). To state it exactly, I have 48 songs in my folder, and 24 of them are by Adam Young, the genius that is Owl City/Sky Sailing. Knowing that, I can get into my point.

This last week, Tuesday 'til Friday, I was at a singing summer camp which had no wi-fi. I typed this on my iTouch around 9 PM Thursday, and am posting it now.

Thursday, July 9, 2015, 9:10 PM
So, yes, I'm a nerd. Now that we've established that... Last February, I learned that there was an a capella summer camp in my area and it apparently had been there for 3 years and I had no idea. Awkward...

 

This is the 3rd and final night of it and I am lying in my room writing and listening to the sweet, sweet sounds of Owl City and associated Adam Young productions. I love the guy. 

On a related note, the a capella camp is actually more like a barbershop quartet camp. In barbershop, the parts aren't the standard SATB. From highest to lowest, you have tenor-flute like Soprano 1s; lead-they sing the melody line; baritone-the higher Altos with the trickiest and seemingly most random part, but it really makes the whole thing come together; and the bass-they sing bass, which for women ends at F-3, the F below middle C. That's what I'm singing (and it's turning out really fun but a literal pain-my chest hasn't hurt so much since I had to sing Alto with congestion). If I do this again, I'm going to try baritone. 

But anyway, so here I am lying in my room with my Owl City, and I'm wondering "What voice part is Adam Young, anyway?"

Usually, I'm pretty good at this. It's not exactly a difficult thing to determine. But I've become aware that your voice doesn't stop developing until you hit 35, and I'm pretty sure he's not that old. 

In his early Sky Sailing work, in everything but "I Live Alone", he's in the tenor range. As you move on through "Maybe Im Dreaming", "Ocean Eyes" and "All Things Bright and Beautiful", he's singing in the baritone range-lower than tenor but higher than bass. But in some of his more recent stuff, like his "Ultraviolet" EP, he has one song that's in E-flat, which is really low. For reference, "Fireflies" is in A-flat, and E-flat is a major fourth BELOW that. It's out of my range, but only just. Imagine "When Can I See You Again?", the song at the end of "Wreck-it Ralph", an octave lower. That is merely a half-step below the song in E-flat I'm referring to. (The song is called "This Isn't the End"--it is one of the best songs I've ever heard. Take a listen if you like.) The point is, it's in the bass range. 

So...Im at a loss here. On one song on the EP, he goes into some soprano notes, which throws me off even more. The guy is playing with my ears. It doesn't make me like him any less-it might, in fact, increase my liking for him. I like being thrown off my game in this mild way. Here's hoping he keeps me on my toes in the future.