Don't Be a Stranger - Mark Eitzel
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  • Summary: Produced by Sheldon Gomberg, American Music Club's Mark Eitzel returns with his sixth solo album after suffering a heart attack in 2011.

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
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  1. Blurt Magazine
    Oct 5, 2012
    80
    Eitzel's work is rarely weak, but Don't Be a Stranger finds him hitting another peak.
  2. Mojo
    Oct 22, 2012
    80
    Some of the 11 songs have a rich band sound with strings and strong piano, and others a spare contemplative tone. [Nov 2012, p.88]
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  3. Paste Magazine
    Oct 2, 2012
    80
    Don't Be a Stranger is out-of-sorts in the best way, as Eitzel forever plays the outsider looking in.
  4. PopMatters
    Oct 2, 2012
    60
    The second half here sounds far more solitary, far less shaped by the sound of others and, as a result, murky in their intention and execution rather than their emotions.

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