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MH-262 Clue To Kalo - Lily Perdida  Satisfyingly schizophrenic, Clue To Kalo’s third full-length release Lily Perdida is ten voices in one, all of them a different branch off the same electric folk tree. Amidst jangly guitar, mod ribbons of flute, and the voices of mastermind Mark Mitchell and duet partner Ellen Carey, ten musical perspectives on fictional character Lily Perdida emerge, each song from the point of view of a different person in her life. A post-modern frolic of keyboards, harpsichords and laptops, Lily Perdida is a gorgeous and sonically sprawling commentary on the nature of history and identity. Each succeeding track reinterprets, misreads or conflicts with the accounts that came before to collectively create an anti-portrait of the main character. The music ebbs and flows with the changing characters but never strays from the utterly satisfying sound we have come to expect from Clue To Kalo. |
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| Not only big, but huge, humungeous, widescreen, a 70mm assault on all your senses... stunningly beautiful - Lodown / Fans of psychadelic pop-electronica can rejoice - Everything At Once / As impressive as it is warm and charming - Pop Matters / Fun and heartbreaking all at once - Exclaim! |
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| Clue To Kalo (from Australia) is coming out with a new album (January 20)! For those of us who enjoy The Postal Service (the new song I’m posting actually sounds more like Sufjan) style electronica with a mix of folk, this is incredibly exciting news. The new album is called Lily Perdida and Clue To Kalo is currently on an album launch tour, so check in your area (at the moment, for those of you who are Australian…) to see if they are performing anytime soon! Having only heard one song I obviously cannot properly review the album, but I expect it to be loads of fun. This album is very different from other works as it tells a story through the view of a different involved member (such as the parents, the peers, the eavesdroppers) - quite a unique idea. Clue To Kalo’s arrangements are stunning, and even though Lily Perdida’s songs are all sung by different “people,” they don’t look to be changing this trend, as the second track off the album “User to a Carrier (By The Sister)” mixes and matches keyboard with boy-girl vocals (something we didn’t hear so much on their previous stuff). Being the awesome blog that we are, we’re offering up the song for your pleasure - but please, it’s for promotional purposes only and buy the album when it comes out! - Knox Road |
