Like Drawing Blood reviewed on Pitchfork!
February 22nd, 2007
Pitchfork media, possibly the largest independent music media website in the US has published a review of Gotye’s Like Drawing Blood. Have a read of it here
Pitchfork media, possibly the largest independent music media website in the US has published a review of Gotye’s Like Drawing Blood. Have a read of it here
November 15th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Great review…. ’til the end. I still think it’s the best album EVER!!!! Too bad my friend stole it then left for overseas…. see, thats how good it is!!!!!!!!!
best of luck 4eva
November 25th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
“…egging him on to the song’s climax, where he rises to a full shout on the lines “It makes no sense/ But I’m desperate to connect.” Judging by the sounds here, the connection isn’t going to happen anytime soon…”
boy, how wrong is this guy?!
didn’t he do his research? considering “hearts a mess” was #8 on JJJ’s 2006 Hottest 100, i’d say the connection happened pretty bloody strongly!
and giving it 6.8/10 is somewhat inadequate, too. either the reviewer doesn’t get it (and really, the album’s not hard to “get” at all - it’s quite accessible, if anything), or pitchfork’s reviewers are just super hard to impress. pitchfork reviews are often tough. raising the bar and demanding quality is never a bad thing, but really, when reviews for an album are unanimously positive and then you read pitchfork’s review and it fails to share the same enthusiasm (or not to the same degree), then you begin to wonder.
at least it’s consistently proportional!
rest assured, wally, australia loves “like drawing blood” and more and more people are connecting with it! :)
May 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
i’m connected , man man man I love the lyrics restecp for that ! although(?) ,like the reviewer , i connect the best with learnalilgivinanlovin since it really gets you, or me ,or everybody soon…
(((wouter aka wally (zoals ik hier meestal lees) ik kijk op naar je als muziekant maar ook als persoon! je lyrics lezen was een plezier en ze raakten me al door de inhoud daar komt nog bij dat je ballen moet hebben om je ziel blood te leggen aan muzieklievend Australië, Uk en Belgium hopelijk straks ook de rest van de wereld. )))
studio brussels is definitly playing it a lot
so that should makes it ‘groovy’ ? or how do they say that nowadays? ;)
greets
owow ps: love the whole hat long hair and moustache silhouette haha
April 6th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I have just discovered Gotye; I heard ‘The Only Way’ on Aussie radio when I visited Oz in March this year. I bought the album ‘Like Drawing Blood’ and have been completely blown away by it. It is the best music I have heard in a long time and I look forward to hearing more of this remarkable young man. (I’m 54 and young at heart).