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

Reviews Summary

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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Absorb / Absorb / All Music Guide / All Music Guide / Almost Cool / BBC / Beats / Big Chill / Big Chill / Big Issue / Boston's Weekly Dig / BPM / DJ / DMC / Dusted / E/I / Exclaim! / Future Music / Gigwise / Grand Slam / Grooves / Igloo / Impact Press / Indie Radio / Ink 19 / Jewish Chronicle / Jive / Logo / Long Beach Union / Measure / Mojo / Music Week / Muzik / One Forty Two / Opus Zine / Orlando Weekly / Outburn / Pelican Neck / Pitchfork / Portland Mercury / Q / Rasputin / Record Collector / San Francisco Examiner / Scan / Splendid / Sub Strata / SX / The Brainwashed Brain / The Crack / The Milk Factory / The Student Web / The Sunday Times / Time Out London / Tokion / Uncut / Undercover / UR Chicago / Urb / XLR8R / Yellow Rat Bastard /

Though the CD's spine reads "Australian made blip-pop" I'd like to think of one-man-band Mark Mitchell's Come Here When You Sleepwalk as alterna-loop. Topped by the quietest vocal presence and aptly-matched lyricism this side of yawn (that's a compliment!), Mitchell's music is cucumber cool and moptop-ishly laptopped. The album is a mostly mid-tempo, lo-symphonic wet dream that conjures memories of 10CC buried alive and still crying from below. As Mitchell coos and hums through the blurp and blips of "Empty Save the Oxygen" and the practically wordless "We'll Live Free (in NYC)" you'll nearly forget he was there, save for the echo of his thoughts. There's the occasional Fender-fill ("Still We Felt Bulletproof") and messy uptempo breaks ("I Think We Can Kinetic") that surround his frightened child voice and it's chamber-like surroundings. - BPM