It's not just a matter of making a video, I am sure most of those views were right after the leno appearance, Get me on Leno and I'll make all the youtube videos you want
heartbeats just came on my ipod rotation. i think i downloaded it a year ago, and haven't downloaded anything else by him. apparently its not even his song but it's great all the same. think my favorite part is... "you knew the hands of the devil..." (the bridge? i'm no musician). he has some crazy background too like son of argentinian parents living in sweden or something. i think he was also just in beantown...
Hi,
Jose Gonzalez was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1978. In 2003, he released his debut album, Veneer, in Europe. The album has since been released in the UK, on April 25, 2005, and in the United States on September 6, 2005.he song Crosses, from Crosses EP and the later Veneer, appeared on the finale of the second season of the popular American television comedy-drama The O.C.. His cover of Heartbeats (also from Veneer) was used in a popular Sony BRAVIA TV commercial featuring coloured bouncing balls in San Francisco and an episode of Zach Braff’s Scrubs.
I've been listening to Jose Gonzalez most of the day. Jose Gonzalez has never been about piling it on. While, say, an Animal Collective song may have thirty different sounds and mind-bending.
As great the preceding songs are, to me, the gold lies in "Crosses," "Deadweight In Velveteen," "Broken Arrows" and -my personal favorite- "Stay In The Shade." In each of these songs, Gonzalez' guitar excels, and his voice seems the only other sound that could be appropriate to elevate their magic.