Search - Gotye :: Boardface

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Out Here in the Cold
2. True to You
3. The Only Thing I Know
4. Wonder Why You Want Her
5. What Do You Want?
6. Out of My Mind
7. Here in This Place
8. Waiting for You
9. Loath to Refuse
10. Noir Excursion
11. Baby

CD Details

All Artists: Gotye
Title: Boardface
Members Wishing: 16
Total Copies: 0
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 1/28/2008
Album Type: Import
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 9330357003302

Synopsis

Album Description

Gotye's sound is a melting pot of samples from sources far and wide, mixed with wally's home recorded sounds to form original songs that are as much influenced by the '80's british electro of depeche mode and mock-lounge pop of roxy music, as the scratchy sounds of old noir soundtracks and majestic orchestras of luminaries john barry and henry mancini. The cut'n'paste approach of hip-hop djs figures prominently in the arrangements, inspired especially by the musicality of san francisco's finest sample-composers, Dj shadow and Cut Chemist. The results are songs that both reference and incorporate styles and sounds of the past, while showcasing wally's unique songwriting in a broad web of sonic environments.

CD Reviews

Excellent debut, but he gets better...

andyc | Canberra, Oz | 05/19/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Melbourne, Australia is becoming a hotbed of this type of art, what with the Avalanches and Wally/Gauthier "Gotye" de Bakker. The aim is to produce lush, witty, captivating music by clever editing of huge numbers of multilayered samples. Gotye not only succeeds brilliantly, but also affectionately pastiches a huge range of different genres over the tracks of this album. "Boardface" is extremely good, but sometimes, the pastiches are perhaps a little too close to identifiable source tracks, which can get distracting. "What Do You Want?", for example, is dangerously close in part to Goldfrapp's "Human". Styles range through hypnotic ambient ("The only thing I know"), trip-hop a la Massive Attack, cod-reggae ("Out of my Mind"), and "Here in this Place" is what happens when Roxy Music's "Avalon" collides with Latin Quarter's "America for Beginners", and the result is drenched in po-faced irony.

The whole album is great, but the sequel "Like Drawing Blood" is more polished, more confident, and stands more independently of its influences."