Gotye - C or D

Thought I had never heard this but just heard it in the gym, caught the title lyric, realized that this was "Somebody That I Used To Know" -- I've heard it a million times, of course, but truly thought it was some late-model Sting single I hadn't learned the name of.

gotye!

This was posted on his website in October 2014 (three days before this thread was last revived).

http://i.imgur.com/BHgYMiF.png

I don't so much care that he "retired" (or didn't), or even that his announcement is really weird. I'm just more surprised that no one really covered it only two years removed from him having one of the biggest international hits in recent memory.

he then posted another post contradicted that post even further, so who knows

http://i.imgur.com/P9IdnFn.png

Ah, so homey is just a weirdo.

gotye west

there will be no gotye...

...GOT YE!

i drank all night with this dude at a bar he's really kewl

Basics are still touring.

I was just reading the new Tape Op and there's a great feature on the guy. Apparently he's really gotten into the ondioline, not just playing it but paying for historic restorations and in particular archiving the works of Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Here's a profile from Petrusich from last summer:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-australian-musician-gotye-resurrects-the-sounds-of-the-ondioline

His 2004 Depeche Mode cover for indie electronic label Groovescooter is now available on Bandcamp, either as a 'single' or on the covers album it came from.