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New York-based Dubliner Mark Geary delivers an extraordinary sophomore album with Ghosts. Drawing on Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and Elliott Smith, Geary's music has commercial reach, boasting the same sort of allure that helped make David Gray a household word. "Beautiful" is warm, evocative banjo-tinged pop, while "You're the Only Girl" has a soulful vocal line and a lilting, Paul McCartney-esque shuffle. Hushed in their presentation, Geary's ballads and subtle rock...   [ read more ]

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Having found the performer-ridden streets of Dublin not to his liking, Irishman Mark Geary headed to New York and the altogether more forgiving surroundings of the Sin + cafT -- though opening for a young Jeff Buckley could hardly be considered an easy gig. Considering the sizable Irish diaspora in that city, Geary's songwriting hasn't quite coddled the "homeland" in the same way as other notable figures may have. Though touches of the Frames' tortured optimism may have crept in through coll...   [ read more ]

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