Hotly
tipped Belgium born Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist and producer,
Gotye, releases Easy Way Out, the first single to be taken from his
forthcoming album Making Mirrors.
Upon its online release in June, it was the
video for the stunning track Somebody That I Used To Know that triggered
an overwhelming response to this particular song worldwide. Just three
weeks after Gotye posted the video on YouTube the song had received
nearly four million hits (this number has now exceeded 16 million),
topped the charts in 4 countries (Australia, Holland, Belgium and New
Zealand) and made it to No.1 on the Hype Machine Twitter chart. Hear it
once and you’ll be haunted by it for weeks.
Gotye first found attention with his second
album, 2006’s Like Drawing Blood. Influential Australian radio station
Triple J named it their album of the year, as did iTunes on its release
in the UK in 2008. In Britain, Like Drawing Blood became a cult hit
while in the States, it made waves after Drew Barrymore fell in love
with single Learnalilgivinanlovin’ and used it in several of her films.
