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Gotye's New Video Is Worth A View Or 100 Million

By now, it's inevitable that you've heard of Gotye and his viral-turned-global megasmash Somebody That I Used To Know.  That song's video is closing in on a staggering hundered million views on YouTube, where all this hoopla began.  Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your outlook), his latest album Making Mirrors isn't a one-trick pony.  That is, unless you're looking for an album chock full of heartbroken anthems.

What Making Mirrors does have in spades is rhythm.  A student of 80's Peter Gabriel and Midnight Oil, Gotye never shies away from a beat, organic or otherwise.  In fact, rhythm is just about the only constant on this album; it veers from straight-up rock (Easy Way Out) to propulsive politico rock (Eyes Wide Open) to 60's Motown (I Feel Better) to Kid A-style electronic clusterfuckery (State of the Art) to painfully gorgeous Wintersleepian soundscapes (Bronte).

If any song on Making Mirrors has a shot at slaying the one-hit-wonder dragon that's soaking Gotye's world in flame, it's Easy Way Out, and Gotye's gone balls out to give it an amazing video.  In what appears to be a continuous spinning shot, an army of Gotye argue, smoke, type, shit, shower, and in at least one case die by blunt force trauma.



Making Mirrors is out now via Universal Republic.
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