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Mixed Blood (album)

album by Gotye

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ6883883 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mixed Blood is a remix/cover album of songs originally by Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Gotye, released in July 2007. All the songs are from his album Like Drawing Blood, except for "The Only Thing I Know" and "Out of My Mind", which come from Gotye's debut album Boardface (although a version of "The Only Thing I Know" was later included in the international release of Like Drawing Blood in 2008).

Karnivool's cover of "The Only Way" came 63rd in the Triple J Hottest 100, 2007.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mixed Blood (album)” is album by Gotye. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mixed, Blood and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2007. For this dossier, Mixed, Blood and album is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “album by Gotye” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6883883. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mixed Blood (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.