Mark Eitzel: The Soul Disappears Like A Hairline
William Higham, Rock's Backpages, 28 April 2001
Mark Eitzel is most famous as the lead singer and songwriter of American Music Club, the influential godfathers of emotive lo-fi. They recorded seven harrowing and mostly great albums before self-destructing in the mid-1990s (the best are California, Everclear and Mercury).
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