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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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| Who knows how Aussie Mark Mitchell, aka Clue to Kalo, got connected to Mush, an American underground hip-hop label, but somehow the pairing makes sense. The same independent, do-anything spirit that animates Mush's rhymers is evident in Mitchell's idiosyncratic pairing of his meandering laptop production with his own hushed, low-key vocals. "Empty Save the Oxygen" opens with a short, melancholy verse, then the lyrics vanish, leaving behind several minutes of instrumental. "This Dies Over Distance" starts where Bjork's "Undo" collapsed, twirling DSP-drained chords around a modal center, as Mitchell's repeated vocal refrain drifts in and out. "Still We Felt Bulletproof" plays with pitch and time over its eleven minute duration, marking Mitchell as a devotee of melodic electronics as well as indie-rock. If anything, Come Here When You Sleepwalk could use more of his pleasant vocal interjections to break up the instrumental passages. - Grooves |
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