Top Ten Albums of 2012 - #9
Gotye's Making Mirrors Editor's Note: This is the 2nd in a quasi-weekly series of reviews marking my favorite ten albums of 2012. The 10th edition is wrapped into the larger year-end post I call "The Ho Media Awards", which will be published just after the new year. Stay tuned! For a brief, weird moment earlier this year, I thought Sting had actually done something cool. Luckily my musical reputation was saved when I learned that this Sting sound a like was actually an Australian going by the moniker Gotye. Whew, almost lost all respect for my own musical opinion there... MM is already his third album, but it took the often parodied single "Somebody That I Used To Know" to garner him worldwide attention. Sidebar: While Kimbra, Gotye's female foil in this tune has a very pleasant voice, her own album that came out this year is definitely not top ten material. The album is eclectic without being off putting in a way that makes it hard to make ...