Nobody saw "Somebody" coming. Sure, Gotye had been playing his drums and laptop to growing Australian hordes as eccentric homemade EPs snowballed into the urbane craft of his 2006 breakthrough, Like Drawing Blood. Plenty knew his alter-ego, too, as Wally De Backer in The Basics: a versatile beat-pop trio renowned for sweat and harmony. But "critical mass" hardly began to describe the fate of "Somebody That I Used to Know", the dark duet with Kiwi soul babe Kimbra that topped the world's playlist in 2012. Twelve ARIAs, three GRAMMY®s and gold-to-platinum status in a dozen countries greeted his Making Mirrors album and opened adventurous ears to a 12-year catalogue of pop genius.