| You know how sometimes you get this sort of sinking, depressing buzzkill idea in your head that all the magic has drained out of your life? It's the sort of thought that tends to grind through your head in those torpid times when the heat's up and everything seems routine and you just cant seem to dig yourself out from under your workload in the office or your responsibilities at the homefront. What happened to those lighthearted summers of bygone childhood, when every day seemed to feel like an open, blank, book, ready to be written anew? Wherefore? Whythen? Howso? And usually, eventually, you realize that you're overglorifying those long-ago days, and that there is, in fact, plenty of magic abounding all about you--you just sort of misplaced your ability to see and feel it for awhile. And this isn't a fault, this isn't a breakdown. It tends to happen to the best of us. I'm bringing all that up because One Way, It's Every Way, the upcoming sophomore release from Adelaide, Australia's Clue to Kalo, is chock-full of this sort of magic, compressed into shockingly lovely songs laden heavy and thick with earstunning arrangements, multipart harmonies, and thoughtful lyrics. It's just the sort of thing to pull you out of whatever doldrums you might find yourself stricken by, whether they're related to summer's end, workaday blahs, or the bad news currently on tv. Just put down what you're doing, relax for a few moments in a comfortable environment (outside beats inside, if possible) and listen as the wonder unfolds. - Moebius Rex |
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