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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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| The success of Architecture in Helsinki must certainly mean that Australia's other pop-orientated artists will soon be garnering more attention, and with a sophomore effort like this, Clue To Kalo are definitely holstering a "check these guys out" label. The album is able to maintain their distinctive sound of wistful folk-electronic-pop that is initiated during the short opening track and floats peacefully throughout the 42 minutes, sometimes picking up its pace like a racing heart in "Come To Mean A Natural Law" or slowing it to a drowsy ballad for closer "The Older The Young." Never a dull moment but never a terribly exciting one either, what it lacks in dynamics it makes up for in unmistakable beauty. Walls of marshmallow harmonies constantly flood your senses along with playful electronic tid-bits and Mitchell's relentlessly lo-fi voice, which orientates itself towards the overall song texture rather than as a centerpiece. And speaking of centerpiece, that honor goes to "Your Palsy To Protect You" which has a distinctive Four Tet influence running through its veins. - The Brag Magazine |
