Know the best part of being alive right this second?
Being able to fall down a rabbit hole in the Internet and finding yourself reading a blog written by a brilliant clothing/jewelry maker on the other side of the world and, in the process, falling deeply, madly in love with a musician you've never heard of.
I don't know what it is about Gotye... but I am smitten. Is it that he sounds like the lovechild of Peter Gabriel and Sting with some Jeff Buckley thrown in for good measure? That his compositions are deliciously layered with other-worldly sounds? That I feel like I am bouncing around inside a gypsy circus tent, a mo-town recording session, a thoroughly modern sampling remix, and a New Orleans style funeral march all within the span of ten songs? That his stuff is vaguely reminiscent of that urgent and heartbroken, dreamy sound of the eighties? I don't know. But I am under his spell. And, after months and months of being on musical strike, I can't stop listening.
Thank you to Don at urbandon for originally posting this on his blog.
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Glad you like! I think it is my soundtrack for the year.
You and G have the same taste. He’s been watching that video non-stop. I think his little bro put him onto it. xo
Love love love love. I will jump on this obsession with you!!! Plus, he has a hot mouth and a beautiful voice.