Their last one was released in On May 27 , , The Basics released a live album titled In the Rude, celebrating the band's year anniversary. Gotye fans will automatically notice the difference in their sound. While Gotye's voice is still used with The Basics, it is backed with heavy guitar and drums that give a rock and roll sound as opposed to the heavy electronic beats that fans are used to with Gotye. Not to mention, it also peaked at number 1 on the singles charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany, and 46 other countries.
Its music video is currently sitting on 1. This was the last time he toured as Gotye, and the last body of original music music released by Gotye. Not driven by any form of monetisation, disgruntled by the worlds constant force of advertisement, in a interview with news. I generally never want to sync my music for products. If someone wants to use it commercially I look at what the budget is and the creativity of the project.
Wouter De Backer, to whom we know as Gotye was two years old when his family moved from Belgium to Australia and settled in Montmorency, Victoria. At the end of high school, that band demolished, and his fellows forced him to search new ways of musical expression.
It was the time that he started his experience with electronic music, found various sounds and samples. He got positive feedback especially from Triple J radio station, so he produced two subsequent self-promoted and self-produced EPs, which also gained positive feedback and gained regular radio rotation. These recordings were assembled and released as an album, named Boardface. Gotye went to Melbourne and continued to record new tracks, while he was working at a library and working with a band known as Basics.
The positive impact of following two years many worthy recordings were released as Like Drawing Blood. The album met with popularity and fame in Australia. There he started working for his third album. In he released the single Eyes Wide Open. The single reached no. The single started considering no. The time ripened for the Gotye, and he released his third album the name of which Making Mirrors.
Becoming proficient on keyboards and drums, De Backer was a teenager when he formed his first band, Downstares, with three of his high-school friends. Once De Backer graduated from high school, Downstares broke up, and after inheriting a large collection of old LPs while attending the University of Melbourne, he began experimenting with sample-based music. Around the same time, De Backer became acquainted with singer and songwriter Kris Schroeder , and together they formed a band called the Basics , who released their first album, Get Back, in While the Basics quickly attracted an audience, De Backer continued to make music as Gotye , and released his first full-length album, Boardface , within months of the Basics ' debut LP.
After moving out of his family's home, De Backer found himself moving frequently over the next several years, while also dividing his time between solo work and the Basics. The nomadic lifestyle was reflected in the sound of the second Gotye album, 's Like Drawing Blood , which was a critical and commercial success in Australia, voted the best album of the year in a Triple J listeners' poll and earning platinum certification.
After establishing a permanent home for his home studio in a barn on his family's property and finding some downtime from the Basics who released albums in and , De Backer began the work of creating a third Gotye album, and in he issued Making Mirrors.
The album's first single, "Eyes Wide Open," was a major hit in Australia, but the follow-up, a duet with Kimbra titled "Someone That I Used to Know," became an international smash, with the single topping the charts in the United States, Canada, the U.
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