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MH-238 Clue To Kalo - One Way, It's Every Way  Written and recorded in Adelaide, Australia during a two-year period of great personal change, and finished on a four-month adventure in Brooklyn, USA, One Way, It's Every Way is Mark Mitchell's second record as Clue To Kalo. Designed as a musical palindrome, the album is an unabashedly ambitious, surprisingly celebratory meditation on death. Instrumental contributions from old and new friends, as well as elements of classic folk, lo-fi rock, and bedroom electronica, are all taken out of context and remade as a ten track set thick with overloaded melodies, multi-part harmonies, and literate language. One Way, It's Every Way is a stunning development for Clue To Kalo both musically and lyrically. |
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| A serious contender for 2005's best record - Scissorkick / Extraordinarily unassuming, gorgeous release - Stylus / Lends understated grace and warmth to a genre that's usually devoid of such things. - New Times Palm Beach / A master of counterintuitive pop arrangements - Chord / Will pull at your heartstrings and carry you back to nostalgic places in the best of ways. - Metro.Pop |
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| On One Way, It's Every Way, Clue to Kalo guide you by the hand through their folk-tronica, past 60s style key changes and softly modulating melodies, while dodging the raw, barbed edges of an electric guitar solo. A sprouting accordion and the occasional sax crawl out, all seamlessly sutured on laptop, and Mark Mitchell's whispering platitudes are so saccharine they're reassuring, even if mostly about death or melancholy. Tracks meld together right up to the Derek & the Dominoes style coda, as if they're in a hurry to start over again. If One Way, It's Every Way has a weakness, it's Mitchell's unchanging Iron & Wine style vocals, so restrained and corked up they feel prudish. If you're waiting for an emotional breakout or primal scream, it won't happen here. One Way, It's Every Way won't cut through malaise or even make you question; it's a lullaby instead of a wake up call. - Altar |
