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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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| With 2003's aptly titled Come Here When You Sleepwalk, Clue to Kalo (nom de plume of Australian PowerBook troubadour Mark Mitchell) serenely rode the crest of a white-noisy lap-pop wave that would end up soaking the early-to-mid-double-naughts with processed clicks and cuts. Two years after the snap, crackle, pop typhoon, One Way, It's Every Way, Mitchell's sophomore effort under the Kalo name, emerges, and like most of the sedate aural snapshots that comprise Mush releases, few changes are made to his whimsical aesthetic. Like an introspective and shoegazed Dan Snaith holding electronic hands with a sweeter Greg Davis, Mitchell offers up lap-pop in the most dictionary of variances-chimey, processed strings are snipped and sliced ("Nine Thousand Nautical Miles"), while prickly lines of synthetic horn shoot through folk songs glued together by cloying vocals and sublime lil' chimes ("The Tense Changes"). Kalo hasn't created a distinct or fresh enough sound to face aggro-electro overpopulation, but it's darling nonetheless. - CMJ |
