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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. |
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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 / Majestic - Logo / An album to dream with - BBC / A wonderful debut - All Music Guide |
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| Touted on the cover as being a synthesis of Slowdive and Boards of Canada, Clue to Kalo brings to an electronic backdrop the sensitivity of soft-spoken dirges pertaining to the matters that make us human. While the lap-pop bombardment continues to barrage our local record stores, Clue to Kalo's sound takes the electronic into the shoegazer realm, opting to focus on layers of lush melodies that coax hushed vocals to levitate above the beats in an unobtrusive manner. I've listened to this record amidst stereo wars in my house, watching people escape hailstorms outside my window... Each listen has absorbed my surroundings, as if the traces of sound left a blue-colored residue on the walls. In every instance, it has delivered me through the emotional disbelief that has consumed my thoughts at any given glance at a television or newspaper. For me, it will forever be a coping soundtrack to the atrocities committed by the US military in this century. - Portland Mercury |
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