 | Gotye Making Mirrors
3.6
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| Ranking: #139 for 2011 | |
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| 4.5 superb | Ladakh | September 3rd 11 |
With astonishing production skills and a great ear for sounds and textural hooks, De Backer has created an album where one song after another becomes your favourite. This album lifted me and made me fall in love harder than at any time in the last ten years. Essential.
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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. STAFF | April 5th 23 |
Ah, 2011's one-hit-wonder. Belgian boi Gotye (yeehawww) fortunately garnered his album with more than *that* song: all eleven other tracks constitute your typical 2011 indie-meets-art-meets-alt pop knack with enough diversity among each tune, and as much 80s flair as late-noughties modernity.
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| 4.0 excellent | jackalope11 | February 24th 12 |
The individual songs are excellent, but it lacks a proper flow in the 2nd half of the album. A really interesting display of vocal talent from Debacker, him sounding totally different in nearly every song. Great production, depth, and lyrical content (ahem, Somebody I Used To Know), but still, no common flow, in my opinion.
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| 3.5 great | iGuter | January 31st 12 |
Gotye is an impressive man not only because of his keen pop mind but because he can make an album sensitive and catchy to the nature of what the song requires. Even though this album doesn't hold as much as his debut, he still can form an incredible album out of passion, even if the songs are shorter.
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| 4.5 superb | zillah | December 22nd 11 |
The most serious complaint I can make against this record is that it's totally scattershot: beginning with a series of songs about post-breakup suffering a la early Death Cab for Cutie, then taking a quick sixties/eighties-neo soul interlude, before mining mid-90s, early-00s sample records ("State of the Art" sounds like the best track that wasn't on this year's DJ Shadow release), then into a set of lovely indie balladry, all retro sweetness and subtle electronics. Amazingly, it's all really good, the sort of music that positively quivers with a sophisticated love of its influences and a genuine love of pop craft. Plus, Wouter de Backer can *sing*, and while he's not diva-ish about it, he certainly lets it show on tracks like "Save Me".The whole thing is good enough to make me feel like thematic coherence is overrated; hell, it's even good enough to excuse "I Feel Better", which is as (superficially) dire as everybody says it is. Everyone claims 2011 has been a great year for music. For me, it's been pretty weak, but this is a redeeming album and a strong contender for my pop album of the year.
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| 4.5 superb | Chaly | September 14th 11 |
The dudes amazing, every song is as good as the last.
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| 4.5 superb | germandeco | September 7th 11 |
I've never heard Wally before this album, but I'm now looking back at everything he's done, and I'm looking forward to everything he's going to release. I watched a video on Youtube about how he created the song "Eyes Wide Open" and if you are fan, it is a must see.
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| 4.5 superb | Captain North | August 31st 11 |
I feel better, better, better than before (after listening to this).
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| 3.0 good | charlie15 | August 23rd 11 |
I was expecting a dark and immersive record, going by the first release off the album. His slower paced, highly emotional tracks are amazing, however, tracks like 'I feel better' ruin the experience.
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| 4.0 excellent | Gumboot | October 18th 22 |
| 3.0 good | 2ool | September 1st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dubboop | March 24th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Zeuzo | December 18th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Snuron | February 9th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | January 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scryxer | August 1st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | July 8th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Wolfe | May 13th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Sarah | May 25th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Djang0 | February 20th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | 0w0 | January 17th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mathias STAFF | December 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | gilly | January 19th 18 |
| 3.0 good | wg98 | November 16th 17 |
| 3.5 great | ktmq | February 13th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | giovanni | December 13th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Xinlo | July 21st 16 |
| 3.0 good | Snide | July 10th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | fsavage | April 11th 16 |
| 3.5 great | elry2k | February 24th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Mojito | November 15th 15 |
| 2.5 average | mzeet | September 13th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom R. CONTRIBUTOR | September 11th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Aeri | August 14th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Pels0 | December 19th 14 |
| 2.5 average | Runeii | December 16th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | ariich | October 4th 14 |
| 3.0 good | ajc1956 | September 29th 14 |
| 3.5 great | mhart8 | July 25th 14 |
| 2.5 average | whaka | May 17th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | Tyrael | March 26th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Adam | March 4th 14 |
| 3.8 excellent | Rowan5215 STAFF | February 24th 14 |
| 3.5 great | msm008 | January 30th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | devin0 | January 26th 14 |
| 3.5 great | eazye | November 10th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | godyguy | October 20th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Alaska | August 27th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | d3bates | August 5th 13 |
| 3.5 great | SMUD | July 18th 13 |
| 2.5 average | sncold | June 7th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | grizz | April 29th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lyme | March 17th 13 |
| 3.5 great | CWBrown | February 26th 13 |
| 3.5 great | heck | February 23rd 13 |
| 2.5 average | DanN91 | February 12th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | Ziio | February 5th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Lobber | February 4th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Hoppip | December 23rd 12 |
| 2.5 average | TheMilQ | December 22nd 12 |
| 3.0 good | SamR | December 5th 12 |
| 3.0 good | dwejkk | November 20th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | ancore | November 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | ThreeJP | November 13th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Solisis | September 17th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Baphomet | September 8th 12 |
| 3.0 good | Eko | August 9th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | KILL | July 27th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | JoshTh | July 15th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | Cru | July 7th 12 |
| 2.5 average | Essoen | July 2nd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Irving EMERITUS | June 29th 12 |
| 3.5 great | xevman | June 20th 12 |
| 3.5 great | cuki92 | June 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | tables | May 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | dmp3131 | April 26th 12 |
| 1.5 very poor | Lucido | April 25th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | JohIV | April 24th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Moraff | April 14th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | CutMan | April 13th 12 |
| 3.0 good | TanMan | March 30th 12 |
| 3.5 great | toxin. | March 26th 12 |
| 3.0 good | ILJ | March 23rd 12 |
| 3.5 great | Sejine | March 13th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | jday | February 14th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | mppwns | February 7th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | PHATJ | February 2nd 12 |
| 2.5 average | endtyme | January 30th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | kojpl | January 27th 12 |
| 5.0 classic | StAAder | January 20th 12 |
| 3.5 great | DaveyBoy EMERITUS | January 3rd 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | NateT | January 2nd 12 |
| 3.0 good | Hewitt | December 31st 11 |
| 3.8 excellent | greg84 EMERITUS | December 30th 11 |
| 2.5 average | doqtor | December 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | BlueW | November 27th 11 |
| 3.0 good | Aids | November 26th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | AutoRock | November 26th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Sprat16 | November 25th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | Ignored | November 16th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Iai EMERITUS | October 1st 11 |
| 3.5 great | conradtao EMERITUS | September 20th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | WeedKrop | September 11th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Douglas | August 30th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | ryan10 | August 24th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rowdy | August 16th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jim | August 16th 11 |
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