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 You Oughta KnowGotye

You Oughta KnowGotye

Hailing from Australia, Gotye is a sonic archivist, mixing colors from both ends of music's historical spectrum to create emotional precision-pop.

About Gotye

  1. Ask Gotye about his new album Making Mirrors and he'll speak not of songs, but of sounds. He'll describe the various valves through which strings and choirs cycle on his Lowrey Cotillion, a vintage organ bought for 100 bucks in a second-hand shop that features on the record. But that's just one example of how the Australian singer/songwriter and instrumentalist virtualizes instruments to make their new forms sound unique, and his detailed signature can be found throughout his pop-leaning tunes, that also feature dub, Detroit-era Motown soul, stadium-size politipop, synth-folk and world music on glorious, sprawling, huge-hearted songs. This is pop at its most precise, but also electronic music at its most emotional. A marriage of the past and the most contempo... Moreğ

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  1. Watch our collection of Gotye's music videos!

  2. Gotye stopped by VH1's offices in New York City to lay down an intimate live set for You Oughta Know Live.

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