MH-213 Clue To Kalo - Come Here When You Sleepwalk Combining equally strong elements of laptop production, heartfelt vocals, and non-traditional songwriting, Come Here When You Sleepwalk is the extraordinary new release from Australian musician Clue To Kalo (Mark Mitchell). Featuring both down and uptempo tracks, the release's strengths are its ever-morphing melodies, keyboard lines, and drum machines, and understated vocals that never use more words or volume than necessary to set their mood. At first glance, the lyrics seem simple, yet they cut to the heart of their topic with precision. Damaged personalities, wounded relationships and underlying hope saturate tracks on a release that should establish Clue To Kalo as one of the finest songwriters and producers working in electronic music today.

Tracklist 01. The First Song Of The Rest Of Your Life 02. Empty Save The Oxygen 03. This Is Over By Inches 04. Within Reach Of My Own Arms 05. We'll Live Free (In NYC) 06. This Dies Over Distance 07. Still We Felt Bulletproof 08. I Think We Can Kinetic 09. Your Heart Is Your Compass 10. Do You Know That Love Can End?

Release Details Release Date: 03/04/2003   Running Time: 57:58   Download/Available/$7.00 2XLP/Available/$10.00 CD/Out Of Print Territory: World Excluding UK/Europe License For UK/Europe: The Leaf Label - Release Date: 03/03/2003

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An elegant digital reverie - Mojo / Gorgeous sounds that seem so simple and effortless that they could almost come from the mind of a child - CMJ / Records like these give us cause to sing. - Urb / Soothing, swirling electronic melancholy - Tokion / Majestic. - Logo / An album to dream with - BBC / A wonderful debut - All Music Guide

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An epic both glitchy and beautiful, Clue to Kalo's Come Here When You Sleepwalk is equal parts IDM and singer-songwriter folk music. Like water, the ten tracks move slowly but surely through the stages of damaged emotions, culminating with "Still We Felt Bulletproof," on which Clue to Kalo's mastermind Mark Mitchell intones for the little pieces broken in all of us: "I'd like to not be able to go on without you." Come Here When You Sleepwalk is gorgeous lucid dreaming from start to finish, with moments of subtle laptop-producer crunch thrown in for good measure. Lyrically, the album doesn't slam you over the head, preferring instead to work subconsciously on the heart with lines like "it's not what we've got but what we've had" that anchor the whole piece emotionally. This is the sound of a heart breaking and subsequently dancing its own ass off. - Jive