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Artist Mark Croft

  • Mark Croft

Surely every decent-sized American town is home to a few guys pursuing careers in shiny, radio-friendly singer-songwriter pop. Mark Croft is among the redeeming elements of that scene. Like many a young popster, he comes off as achingly earnest, but in a way that’s more prone to feel nice-guy corny than feigned and cheesy. His voice doesn’t slur into sentimental glop; it perks up into fey melodies and the occasional slightly goofy rap on tunes like “Superheroes,” from his EP The Possibility Of Disaster. His latest, Evening Flood, adds a considerable amount of funk to the proceedings, particularly on “The Gas Is On” and “If She’s Gonna Shake It.”

Updated 07/06/2011

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