| It's a good forty seconds into "The First Song of the Rest of Your Life" which is the first track on Clue to Kalo's new album, before you'll hear much of anything. Then the hypnotic keyboard and laptop noises start to fade in slowly, as if coming to the surface from the bottom of the ocean. Fucking 'ell, I think, if this is the first song of the rest of my life, then I'm in for a very grim affair indeed. Luckily, Come Here When You Sleepwalk picks up the pace immediately after that. The album features ethereal bleeps and understated drum beats galore, but it is the sweet vocals of Mark Mitchell, Clue to Kalo's mastermind, that makes this album more than just another IDM experiment. "I'll make so much out of nothing / You can't stop me / I don't think you can," Mitchell sings on "Empty Save the Oxygen" the mesmerizing second track. Too true. Mitchell does in fact create an extraordinary lo-fi journey full of shinning dots and loops. Clue to Kalo recalls the beauty of shoegazers like Slowdive ("This Dies Over Distance") and injects his minimalist melodies with the soul of Spiritualized ("We'll Live Free (in NYC)"). Sleepwalking or not, it's certain this is an album you will be coming back to. - Outburn |
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