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.

Tracklist 01. The Younger The Old 02. Seconds When It's Minutes 03. Come To Mean A Natural Law 04. The Just Is Enough 05. As Tommy Fixes Fights 06. Ignore The Forest Floor 07. The Tense Changes 08. Your Palsy To Protect You 09. Nine Thousand Nautical Miles 10. The Older The Young

Release Details Release Date: 09/20/2005   Running Time: 41:38   Download/Available/$7.00 1XLP/Available/$10.00 CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: North America License For UK/Europe: The Leaf Label - Release Date: 09/12/2005 License For Japan: & Records - Release Date: 08/10/2005

Reviews Summary

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

Reviews

30 Music / Alarm / Almost Cool / Altar / Amplifier / Angry Ape / Boomkat / Boston's Weekly Dig / Chord / CMJ / Coke Machine Glow / dB Magazine / Download / Future Music / Harmonium / Hub / Impact Press / Indie Workshop / Indigo Flow / Ink 19 / Inpress / International DJ / Kevchino / Live Journal / Lost at Sea / Maximum Ink / Metro.Pop / Michigan Daily / Moebius Rex / Music for Robots / Music Week / Musique Machine / New Times Palm Beach / Orlando Weekly / Prefix / Remix / Satellite Magazine / Scissorkick / Signal to Noise / Slightly Confusing to a Stranger / Slipped Discs / Splendid / Stylus / Tastes Like Chicken / Textura / The Brag Magazine / The Hub / The Maneater / The Milk Factory / The Onion / Tiny Mix Tapes / Treblezine / Uncommon Folk / Under the Radar / Undress Me Robot / Westword / XLR8R /

One Way, It's Every Way is the second album for Clue To Kalo (the alias of Mark Mitchell), which took two years to write and record in both Australia, and ending in a four month stint in Brooklyn. Mitchell takes a genuine guitar pop aesthetic to an area filled with programmed and electronic styles of music, where laidback acoustic tracks are fused with a dizzying array of digital backing and magical studio touches. Kalo has ended up creating an entire albums worth of accessible, catchy songs all produced by a playful mind. Only everything is done in a completely contemporary way, with Mitchell adding enough inventiveness to shrug off suggestions this is nothing more than a simple acoustic album. Incorporated in one form or another are traces of rock, folk, electronica, pop, post rock and indie, which has created a beautiful and stunningly unique hybrid of original compositions. With the emphasis clearly on songwriting and then adding experimental prduction as an afterthought, this not only distances Clue To Kalo from his peers, but inserts him into a league of his own. - Angry Ape