★★★★★
Burlington's Walk Off the Earth have achieved household-name status (in some households anyway) based on the success of their YouTube channel - in particular their five-people, one-guitar version of Gotye's ubiquitous Somebody That I Used To Know. (Gimmicky, yes, but it's also a great performance and recording.) But if people are discovering artists through cover songs on YouTube, what's the point of making an album? WOTE use the opportunity to showcase original material...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
Walk Off the Earth - R.E.V.O.
Burlington's Walk Off the Earth have achieved household-name status (in some households anyway) based on the success of their YouTube channel - in particular their five-people, one-guitar version of Gotye's ubiquitous Somebody That I Used To Know. (Gimmicky, yes, but it's also a great performance and recording.)
But if people are discovering artists through cover songs on YouTube, what's the point of making an album...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-15
★★★★★
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Walk Off The Earth - R.E.V.O.
March 28, 2013 by Brittany Moseley
Released:March 19, 2013 - Columbia
AP Rating:
You'd think it would be easy to write off Walk Off The Earth as some hippie folk band, but there is nothing easy about them. Although the band gained popularity after covering Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know," R.E.V.O. proves the Canadian five-piece have quite a bit more up their sleeves...
- www.altpress.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
In the past couple of years mainstream radio has shown that it's willing to once again to embrace pop/rock bands, singer/songwriters and other artists who have spent several years banished to the fringes from the way of club-ready anthems. As unlikely as it would have been only a short while back, we've now got the likes of Gotye and Fun. being responsible for some of the very biggest songs of the year...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Teamwork isn't a problem for these Canadians, as the 147 million people who saw their YouTube cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" can verify; in it, the five-piece hunch around a single guitar, subletting individual frets and strings. Their debut feels equally crowdsourced for maximum popularity, but fractures under its many moods: half heartedly scornful rap rock ("Sometimes"), teen-baiting party anthems ("R.E.V.O...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-04-01
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