Ask Gotye about his new album Making Mirrors and he’ll speak
not of songs, but of sounds. He’ll describe the various valves through which
strings and choirs cycle on his Lowrey Cotillion, a vintage organ bought for
100 bucks in a second-hand shop that features on the record. Or how he
constructed a bassline by sampling the Winton Musical Fence, an unlikely
instrument he discovered in the outback of Queensland, Australia, comprised of
five large metal strings attached to wooden fence posts and a resonant chamber.
Listen to Making Mirrors and you’ll be drawn in by the details, transported to
a world where every moment matters. This is pop at its most precise, but also
electronic music at its most emotional. The record delves into dub, Detroit-era
Motown soul, stadium-size politipop, synth-folk and world music on glorious,
sprawling, huge-hearted songs.
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