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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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| Someone get this fucker a Volkswagen commercial, or a placement as background music in some indie film or something - Clue to Kalo is Mark Mitchell, and he creates breathy music that you’d love to drive alone to on a quiet and isolated summer night… Or maybe you’d like to sit in a coffee house and bust out your laptop to check that thesis you’ve been working on… Or maybe you’d want to do neither of these things, but would love to sit on your couch and listen to a lush and vibrant electronic tinged album full of layered beauty. In any case, this album is for you. As an Australian, Mark Mitchell crafts music normally seen tackled by the Brits on Warp Records or hipsters elsewhere scattered throughout the US in enclaves of Brooklyn and beyond. Mitchell’s half whispered vocals remind me of Mike Kinsella of indie folker band Owen, though the music itself is nothing like that band’s: Mitchell combines the organic and acoustic elements of Four Tet with the soothing vibe of Her Space Holiday and the layered sounds of other groups that escape me, mostly because Clue to Kalo is much more original than name-checking would connote. For example, “Seconds when Minutes” adds a lilting harpsichord-style fugue to Mitchell’s layered and overlapping vocals, creating an utterly hypnotic swirl. While each track will easily draw you in like some severe undertow, there is one standout here: “Ignore the Forest Floor” best illustrates Mitchell’s skill at layering tracks on top of each other; there is one simple guitar part that loops dutifully while other while beats and vocals mutate into a disorienting cacophony. There are a lot of payoffs throughout this album; it is so dense that each track can be dissected differently with each new listen. It is certainly fun discovering each new twist and turn on One Way, It’s Every Way, and Clue to Kalo have created a great album to get lost in. - Lost at Sea |
1XLP/Out Of Print