The album was also nominated for a J Award that year. Gotye's second album Like Drawing Blood was featured by Triple J in May 2006 and was voted Number 1 in the listeners poll of the Best Album of 2006.
His first single, "Learnalilgivinanlovin" from Like Drawing Blood, was released in August, 2006. He is also one-third of Melbourne indie-pop band The Basics.Īs Gotye, his public exposure, like many alternative Australian musical acts, comes largely from youth radio station Triple J. When that band dissolved Wally started focusing on his solo project, cut'n'paste tunes that eventually would come under the moniker of 'Gotye'. Born in Belgium but based in the city of Melbourne, Australia, Gotye has released two studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums.īorn in Belgium and then raised in Australia, Walter (as he is more commonly called) has been making music since his teens, first in moody local rock band Downstares, a fixture at underage shows in the North-East suburbs of Melbourne for a few years. Wouter DeBacker (born, Bruges), more commonly known by the stage name Gotye (pronounced or "gor-tee-yeah), is an ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter. The moments of frustration, dissatisfaction and sadness rendered in the spacey dubs of Puzzle With A Piece Missing, Thanks For Your Time's electro-funk pop and the sumptuous orchestra sounds of Hearts A Mess are countered by the unbridled positivity of Learnalilgivinanlovin's homage to Northern Soul, A Distinctive Sound's turntablist kook and the after-life meditations of The Only Way, driven by a Bollywood-pop-meets-psychedelic-dancehall groove.Gotye (произносится или "gor-tee-yeah) австралийский музыкант Уолли Де Бакер (Wally De Backer) с французскими корнями, который записывает свои композиции в домашней студии в городке Оаклей, штат Виктория родился, в Брюгге (Бельгия).
Musically, it's another mixed bag with a subtle thread holding it all together- alt-pop with a broad sonic and thematic pallette. All sounds on the album were collected and assembled or performed by Wally De Backer in bedrooms around Melbourne between 20, and the record was mixed and mastered by Franc Tetaz (Wolf Creek soundtrack, Machine Translations, Architecture in Helsinki) giving it a beautiful hi-fi depth and brilliance that goes beyond Wally's lo-fi gem Boardface (2004). Take two and a half years, four share-houses, 757 op-shop records, a few thousand dollars lost to dodgy housemates, 2565 hours of community library customer service, 20,000 km of round-Australia travel, countless computer crashes and one critical hard-disk failure, and you have a rough diary for the recording process of the new record by Gotye (pronounced 'gore-ti-yeah').
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