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Clue To Kalo
- Record Label: Mush / The Leaf Label
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2003
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Once the languid beats and innocent twilight melodies of Mark Mitchell's spacious oddity of an album hits the fourth track, you begin to realize a certain cohesion to this eccentric electronic work.
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Come Here When You Sleepwalk is a soporific reverie that wafts gently and beguilingly but ultimately insubstantially.
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Q MagazineHe sings with surprising forthrightness yet these 10 electronic daydreams are not songs in any conventional sense. [May 2003, p.100]
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The songs are frustratingly stagnant-- albeit beautiful-- exercises in lap-pop textures.
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MojoAn elegant digital reverie. [Apr 2003, p.112]
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UncutFeyness is a constant threat, but Mitchell's British debut generally tiptoes clear of whimsy, mixing up the guitar loops, squitting beats and genteel vocal angst in a way which becomes insidious. [Apr 2003, p.105]
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Compared to similar but more extroverted acts like Capitol K and Manitoba, Clue to Kalo lacks the jagged pop edges that stick in the listener's memory.
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The few moments of clarity don’t diminish Sleepwalk’s seductive anesthetic, which may be one of the album’s drawbacks.