Australia-based indie multi-talent Gotye’s transfixing “Somebody That I Used to Know” serves as a reassuring reminder that good, old-fashioned pop (of the non-electro-influenced, Auto-Tuned variety) can still be made and beloved on a massive scale.
Recently sitting at No. 1 on the Australian singles charts, the song feels carved from a bygone era in song-craft, riding a gorgeously-paced simmer of subdued vintage ’60s pop sounds to casually unfold a painfully relatable portrait of the distractions of a previous romance’s effect on a current relationship and a genius arc that finds you wanting to kick a character who moments before you felt sorry for. MORE