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Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You
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  • Summary: The fourth full-length solo release for the former Miracle Legion member is his first since 2005's In Pursuit Of Your Happiness.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Uncut
    Jun 19, 2013
    80
    Mostly, Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You sounds supremely happy to be here: it's an infectious feeling. [Jul 2013, p.82]
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  2. Mojo
    Jun 19, 2013
    80
    It's gritty urban dramas never become too heavy-hearted, the breezy tunes blowing through like prime Jonathan Richman. [Jul 2013, p.84]
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  3. cokemachineglow
    Aug 1, 2013
    80
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy, I Love You is a triumphantly together record, focused and witty and emotional and present in the way that only someone rediscovering his life’s work can be.
  4. Magnet
    Jul 17, 2013
    75
    It's hard to listen, and that makes Dear Mark the kind of pointedly painful pop that forces me [to] rush out, buy 11 albums that came before it and never get around to opening the packages. [No. 100, p.56]
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  5. Rolling Stone
    Sep 9, 2013
    70
    Dear Mark J. Mulcahy fights against darkness with bright, wryly warbled folk-pop that can recall the Velvet Underground or Loudon Wainwright III or the post-REM college-rock Mulcahy made in Eighties band Miracle Legion.
  6. American Songwriter
    Jun 24, 2013
    70
    All of this makes for a satisfying comeback for a cult artist who has several cults anxiously waiting his return. Those fans will no doubt love Dear Mark J Mulcahy, I Love You. Newcomers used to straight-line songs might want to try it out as well, because they might be surprised at how refreshing it is when a songwriter reaches his destination zig-zagging all the way.
  7. Q Magazine
    Jul 10, 2013
    60
    A breezy, rangy collection of songs that give the impression of a man keen to make a move without over-analysing too much. [Aug 2013, p.102]
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