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MH-262 Clue To Kalo - Lily Perdida  Satisfyingly schizophrenic, Clue To Kalo’s third full-length release Lily Perdida is ten voices in one, all of them a different branch off the same electric folk tree. Amidst jangly guitar, mod ribbons of flute, and the voices of mastermind Mark Mitchell and duet partner Ellen Carey, ten musical perspectives on fictional character Lily Perdida emerge, each song from the point of view of a different person in her life. A post-modern frolic of keyboards, harpsichords and laptops, Lily Perdida is a gorgeous and sonically sprawling commentary on the nature of history and identity. Each succeeding track reinterprets, misreads or conflicts with the accounts that came before to collectively create an anti-portrait of the main character. The music ebbs and flows with the changing characters but never strays from the utterly satisfying sound we have come to expect from Clue To Kalo. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Not only big, but huge, humungeous, widescreen, a 70mm assault on all your senses... stunningly beautiful - Lodown / Fans of psychadelic pop-electronica can rejoice - Everything At Once / As impressive as it is warm and charming - Pop Matters / Fun and heartbreaking all at once - Exclaim! |
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| The hippie-fied production baked into Clue to Kalo's One Way, It's Every Way returns in great form on Lily Perdida, but it ain't easy listenin'. Boasting orchestral folk trimmings and fussily woven vocal harmonies, Lily finds CTK's Mark Mitchell paired with Ellen Carey (and her twee stylings) for 10 odes to the fictional character for which the album is named. Sharp moments are many—"Lull for Dear Life" shifts from churchy balladry to sparkling pop in a flash, and "The Infinite Orphan" is marked by an earnest devotion to '60s mod fare—but Lily must've been some difficult kid. This is a dense, challenging ride, where the search for the big hooks is sometimes derailed by an onslaught of smaller ones. - XR8R |
