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MH-213 Clue To Kalo - Come Here When You Sleepwalk  Combining equally strong elements of laptop production, heartfelt vocals, and non-traditional songwriting, Come Here When You Sleepwalk is the extraordinary new release from Australian musician Clue To Kalo (Mark Mitchell). Featuring both down and uptempo tracks, the release's strengths are its ever-morphing melodies, keyboard lines, and drum machines, and understated vocals that never use more words or volume than necessary to set their mood. At first glance, the lyrics seem simple, yet they cut to the heart of their topic with precision. Damaged personalities, wounded relationships and underlying hope saturate tracks on a release that should establish Clue To Kalo as one of the finest songwriters and producers working in electronic music today. |
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| An elegant digital reverie - Mojo / Gorgeous sounds that seem so simple and effortless that they could almost come from the mind of a child - CMJ / Records like these give us cause to sing - Urb / Majestic - Logo / An album to dream with - BBC / A wonderful debut - All Music Guide / Soothing, swirling electronic melancholy - Tokion |
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| The sleeve to Clue to Kalo's debut is decorated with an image of a person on a bicycle that is too blurry and unclear to determine the character's gender. It's a curiously apposite image for the Adelaide-based solo project: Clue to Kalo aka Mark Mitchell creates beguiling, wide-eyed music that (echoing Mum's ambient drift and Badly Drawn Boy's early obfuscated recordings) seems deliberately indistinct and intentionally lacking any obvious focal point. Rather, the acute beauty of Come Here When You Sleepwalk is revealed only with recurrent play and attentive listening. Rueful, caustic and emotive lines like "You may be special but not special enough / I'd like to love you but I'd like a lot of things" ("Empty Save the Oxygen") and "Cut off all the exits / Realise that you have nothing left" ("Still We Felt Bulletproof") are barely discernible on early plays. The latter song is the album's musical and thematic centre-piece, sustaining interest for over eleven minutes through a process of perpetual mutation that takes in miserablist folk, melodic techno, pretty 'indietronica' and video-game music before diffusing in a miasma of digital skree and inverted melodies. Lovely. - Record Collector |
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