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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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| At its heart, One Way, It's Every Way is a glorious sunshiny pop/folk album that brings back fond memories of the Birds and their ilk, but with an electronic backbone that's rich in invention and replay-ability. Unlike a lot of electronic artists who attempt to mix experimental elements with pop, Clue to Kalo lets the material shine in all its tuneful glory. Mark Mitchell, who is Clue to Kalo, quite simply has a great honey curled voice that performs multi harmonies which gently waltz around the guitar work and subdued electronics. Along the way, there's some great lyrics like "Tonight I thought you were funny and mean, the way you boiled in the corner until you ran out of steam," from "As Tommy Fixes Fights." The album strolls along at a leisurely pace, It's not world changing stuff. But like a pleasant walk in the countryside, it enriches your soul and makes you feel good. - Musique Machine |
