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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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| Clue to Kalo is really just Mark Mitchell, an Australian singer-song-writer with immense talent and lots of helpful friends. With a style that's reminiscent of Badly Drawn Boy, One Way, It's Every Way takes the concept one step further, presenting a thematic album about death, it's inevitability, and it's role as an equalizer. Without being melodramatic and depressing, Mitchell actually lends a joyous and reflective tone to an otherwise undeniably somber topic. A number of instrumentals add connectivity to the lyrical harmonies and help to create a cohesive offering of expression and purpose. Standouts include "Seconds When It's Minutes," "As Tommy Fixes Fights," and "Ignore the Forest Floor," but in the final reckoning, the whole is much more than the sum of its parts. - Amplifier |
