CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:

GOTYE "making mirrors" cd, 2011.

hatchetman Wrote:Really need to get this album.

CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:

GOTYE "making mirrors" cd, 2011.

about time i posted this one after championing his cause here since last september(ish)....
Wally De Backer, of Belgian descent is an Australian artist who has actually been around for almost a decade now...took till his fifth album(this one) to make any impact on the charts anywhere, including here, released three albums with his band The Basics, for whom he played drums and took on vocal duties, and now two solo albums.
like his first solo set, this one is almost what you would call a "one man band" job, from most instruments, all vocals, production,self financing etc etc...
a collection of loose pop,reggae,electronica sounds that bare a resemblance to some of Peter Gabriel's work and maybe to a lesser extent to Jon and Vangelis(not that i claim to know much about them guys).
some dark depressing lyrics here that sit well alongside(for the most part) happy go lucky tunes. that said i feel some of the album is quite sparse in placesbut without feeling due to the cold synth sounds.
as Music Head pointed out in his review on pg226 of this thread...i cant stand the useage of the Vocoder machine on one track...it sounds so outdated and after the abysmal attempt of its use by Neil Young in the early 1980s i have been put off its use for life!
all up though, a very good album, not great, but well worth purchasing the whole thing than simply just the hit "somebody that i used to know"...
the album has upto today been a number one hit in almost 20 countries as has the above mentioned single, not sure if he'll live up to expectations and have his follow up album hit the same highs on the world charts, but it will be interesting to see where he goes from here...

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: making mirrors
best track: somebody that i used to know

tracks:

1. making mirrors *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_fCdmvlsaI aaudio
2. easy way out **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEpfyBOdKxU video
3. somebody that i used to know ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UVNT4wvIGY video
4. eyes wide open ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSDIP7959As audio
5. smoke and mirrors ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwXh8h5jivg audio
6. i feel better ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRC--2qC_Qs audio
7. in your light ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HwgDDw5350 audio
8. state of the art *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H20W5PJJe4 audio
9. dont worry,we'll be watching you *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gCuoZfZQTc audio
10.giving me a chance *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkoDyRJCeRg audio
11.save me **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpV8j8P994U audio
12.bronte **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAErNLUT-Sc audio

3s=5
2s=3
1s=4

rating: 2.1

SteveO Wrote:Finally !!! Wouter "Wally" Gaultier Gotye De Backer has garnered attention ! I have been listening to this album since it was first posted by you and it is a great album ! De Backer is a musical genius of sorts with his many genres of music from pop to the avant garde to electronica to jazz and more ! I love this album so much that I now also have his albums Boardface (pretty sure it's a spinoff of Woodface - Crowded House in name) and Like Drawing Blood !...simply genius....my favorite album of 2012 thus far is Making Mirrors along with the previously acclaimed Weather Systems by Anathema !!!!

Thank you Crazy-Horse for posting Gotye's Making Mirrors and for introducing this remarkable artist to me !!!!!