GOTYE
ITUNES ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2008

We are delighted to announce that Gotye’s album “Like Drawing Blood” has been named as iTunes Album of the Year for 2008. 

Whilst Gotye had already won a plethora of prestigious awards in his adopted home of Australia, including the Australian equivalent of both the Mercury Music Prize (Australian Music Prize) and Brit Awards (ARIA for Best Male Artist) as well as the Australian Independent Records album of the year, this UK award is a fantastic achievement for an artist who recorded the album in his bedroom by night whilst working as a librarian by day. Thank-you iTunes we love you too!

For Like Drawing Blood, Gotye cut loops of calypso, reggae bass, Tijuana brass, 50s film score strings and combined them with emotional swathes of harmonized vocal colour and bold melodic strokes.  A detailed task, the resultant brew is an evocative collage of sounds with their own cultural flavours and heartfelt melodic brilliance.

We anticipate that the iTunes recognition will lead to a deserved wider appraisal from the UK media of the quality this amazing artist and album represents.  As such....cue a new radio edit and an outstanding new remix, from Supermayer, of Hearts A Mess the album’s orchestral centrepiece.   Of the original, esteemed tastemaker Blog and superb New York label Neon Gold said:

“Hearts A Mess” is the most majestic single you’ll hear all year. A cinematic pop masterpiece .... It sounds like nothing else out there right now, a timeless pop classic unrestrained by genre or critical expectations, and it’s the kind of special, once-in-a-lifetime single that rarely comes along in this increasingly homogenized indie scene." 10/10....

Of course we also have a multi-award winning video for 'Hearts A Mess'. Click on the image below and you’ll see why the video has been so revered:....

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