Winners
2011
Second Runner Up : "Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye (Wally De Backer) feat. Kimbra
Gotye is the music-making mantle of Wally De Backer, songwriter, producer and all-round one-man band. A few years ago he created an album that became something of an underground classic.
That record, Like Drawing Blood, was voted triple j listeners' favourite album of 2006, and iTunes UK's Album Of The Year in 2008. In 2007, Gotye won the ARIA Award as Australia's Best Male Artist and his audiovisually ambitious tour with a mini orchestra attracted huge crowds and critical raves. Five years on from its release, the ongoing public affection for Like Drawing Blood was recently demonstrated by the polling of the album at #11 of triple j's publicly voted Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time.
"Somebody That I Used to Know [Feat. Kimbra]" is the second single from Gotye's forthcoming release Making Mirrors (out 19th August via Eleven). Equally an exercise in emotional punch and classy restraint, the song features the vocals of rising star Kimbra, and recounts with heartbreaking clarity the fall-out of a fading relationship. The single release comes a few days earlier than planned owing to a leak of the video online and it is already sitting at #1 on iTunes Alternative chart. triple j was the first station to give "Somebody That I Used to Know [Feat. Kimbra]" the worldwide on-air premiere, calling it "a really exciting harbinger for the album".
