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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 / 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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| A master of counterintuitive pop arrangements, Clue to Kalo's Mark Mitchell stretches his unusually nuanced approach to cover every ornate corner of his third full-length release. Mitchell's brilliance is in the details - in things not obvious on first listen - whether it's the handclaps and softly sighing backing vocals on "Seconds When It's Minutes" or the way his melody slightly breaks meter with the tempo on "The Just Is Enough." Unfortunately, Mitchell is just too darn subtle for his own good; his melodies are careful and restrained and too unassuming to break away from the hypnotically busy backdrop that he creates for them. Amazingly, despite the amount of detail in Mitchell's craftsmanship, the songs feel more like minimalist pop, with richly droning background tones obscuring the surface melodies. In fact, the transitions between the songs are so subtle that the album almost plays like one long track. Once your mind fully integrates the myriad of elements skipping and purring in the background, Mitchell's melodies are found to be beautifully ornate, bending and swaying at unusual intervals around the unusual tempo changes in the bitter "As Tommy Fixes Fights," a song that incorporates strings, a harpsichord, hand drums and flutes as it shifts shapes for five minutes before hitting the belated chorus. The less resilient listener might have zoned out by then, however. - Chord |
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