No, wait – come back! This isn’t some mistake. When Belgian-Australian solo artist Wally De Backer, aka Gotye (it’s pronounced “go-tee-ay”) scored an unexpected No.1 hit in 18 countries with his shimmering single Somebody That I Used To Know in 2011, it marked the proggiest pop song to reach the top spot since Marillion’s Kayleigh… and that only actually reached No.2.
A cleverly arranged, beautifully layered and delicate song of high drama, acerbic lyrics and syncopated rhythms, it mostly recalled the smartest compositions of Peter Gabriel, with shades, perhaps, of Jon Anderson’s high tenor voice too.
