Hailing from Adelaide, Australia, Clue to Kalo mastermind Mark Mitchell applies a lo-fi aesthetic to pristine computer-based production in which the technology is the means rather than the end. A generous use of layered melodies, elemental textures, and multi-tracked vocals highlight a vast range of infl uences and solidify the fact that Clue to Kalo is fi rst and foremost a songwriter.
Clue To Kalo’s first record Come Here When You Sleepwalk received universal acclaim and was released in the UK by Leaf (Manitoba) and in the US by Mush (Her Space Holiday). A tour of the the US and Canada followed and one of the highlights was the Mush 2003 CMJ showcase in NYC. Back in Australia, Clue To Kalo toured Australia in 2004 on a national tour with the like-minded Four Tet and Manitoba.
Written and recorded in Adelaide during a two-year period of great personal change, and fi nished 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. Inventive without being inaccessible, Clue to Kalo has established himself as a singular artist of extraordinary scope and depth.
