Making Mirrors

rollingstone

Gotye is a Belgian-born Australian with a Portuguese-looking stage name that he pronounces like a Frenchman ("Gauthier"). That's just the beginning of the cosmopolitanism on his bracing U.S. debut. Gotye crams in a little bit of everything: Turkish drums, West African thumb pianos, a bass line constructed from samples of an instrument called the Winton […]

pitchfork

Here Australia singer-songwriter Walter De Backer finds room for psych-rock, soul, earnest balladeering, creepy retro-futurism, electronic and Tropicalia touches, and scads of serious-minded 1980s-inspired art pop.