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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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| This is a really good record, unpretentiously blending bleeps and clicks with a human warmth. Adelaide-based Mark Mitchell plays the acoustic guitar as well as the sequencing software, and he's an actual songwriter too, adding his touching, feather-fragile vocals to several tracks, including opener "Empty Save the Oxygen" ("I'd like to love you, but I'd like a lot of things"), and the peculiar, semi-ironic melancholy of "Still We Felt Bulletproof." "This Is Over By Inches" sounds like it is gently being constructed by the assembled electronic insects of the forest, and "Within Reach of My Own Arms" is like a digitized sunrise in the countryside. There's a sunny, pastoral feel to the entire thing, in fact, even in "We'll Live Free (in NYC)". The drum programming and electronic noises work extremely symbiotically to convey a mood rather than show off their own futuristic intricacy, and, though things get slightly hectic on "I Think We Can Kinetic," it's all well-controlled, focused and ultimately effective. There's a heart-stirring tenderness subtly built into this whole album, and it thoroughly deserves the adjective beautiful. - Undercover |
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