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GOTYE - Like Drawing Blood



Take two and a half years, four share-houses, 757 op-shop records, a few thousand dollars lost to dodgy housemates, 2565 hours of community library customer service, 20,000 km of round-Australia travel, countless computer crashes and one critical hard-disk failure, and you have a rough diary for the recording process of the new record by Gotye (pronounced 'gore-ti-yeah').

All sounds on the album were collected and assembled or performed by Wally De Backer in bedrooms around Melbourne between 2003 and 2005, and the record was mixed and mastered by Franc Tetaz (Wolf Creek soundtrack, Machine Translations, Architecture in Helsinki) giving it a beautiful hi-fi depth and brilliance that goes beyond Wally's lo-fi gem Boardface (2003).

Musically, it's another mixed bag with a subtle thread holding it all together- alt-pop with a broad sonic and thematic pallette. The moments of frustration, dissatisfaction and sadness rendered in the spacey dubs of Puzzle With A Piece Missing, Thanks For Your Time's electro-funk pop and the sumptuous orchestra sounds of Hearts A Mess are countered by the unbridled positivity of Learnalilgivinanlovin's homage to Northern Soul, A Distinctive Sound's turntablist kook and the after-life meditations of The Only Way, driven by a Bollywood-pop-meets-psychedelic-dancehall groove.

The album's title is a reflection on its slow birth- behind the day-to-day routines, during the extended interruptions and through the regular technical problems and musical brickwalls, the record was an emotional, financial and creative two-way drip for Wally, but one that clearly bears the fruits of it¹s labour.

Like Drawing Blood was released independently by Wally on his 26th birthday, the 21st of May 2006, and distributed to all good stores by the artful folks at Creative Vibes.

GOTYE - Like Drawing Blood is available through Samples and Seconds, and distributed by Creative Vibes

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