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‘The Invisible Man’ is a wildly adventurous
musical departure for Mark Eitzel,
and, quite possibly the finest album of his career. After seven
albums fronting American Music Club
(1985-1994), garnering endless "Album
of the Year" and "Songwriter
of the Year" accolades from magazines such as Rolling
Stone and Spin, Eitzel
went on to a critically successful solo career.
On the three solo albums, he was joined by various collaborators
such as Bruce Kaphan and Danny
Pearson of AMC, James McNew
from Yo La Tengo,
Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth,
Mike McCready from Pearl Jam,
and Peter Buck from REM.
The big story on ‘The Invisible Man,’ however, is that
Mark has chosen to go it alone; doing most of the producing, recording
and arranging, and playing most of the instruments himself, creating
a sound that takes over the room.
For the uninitiated, Mark Eitzel
is a songwriter and musician admired by a diverse array of artists,
from Joni Mitchell to Tricky,
Polly Harvey to Elton John, Elvis
Costello to Stephin Merritt, Sheryl
Crow to Ryan Adams, to
name just a few. An Eitzel tribute
album, Come On Beautiful, was
released in October 2000, with tracks by
Calexico, Lambchop and
others. Live renditions of Eitzel
songs have also been performed by bands including The
Divine Comedy, Everything But The Girl and The
Indigo Girls.
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