Mark Mulcahy

The Possum In The Driveway MEZZOTINT. CD/DL/LP

Miracle Legion leader’s first new solo material for four years.

Not one for hasty releases, former Miracle Legion frontman Mark Mulcahy has been unusually busy. Re-releasing his old band’s all-but-lost final album last year, he now has two solo records in quick succession, this first one initially limited to Record Store Day vinyl before going on general release. Mulcahy claims it took him “years to make and years off his life”, and it’s easy to see why. All of domesticity is here: the gratefulness and guilt that goes with marriage to someone you genuinely view as your better half, overwhelming love for and total bewilderment of children, the prickly itch of just trying to hold it together and keep ahead of the bad guys. Mulcahy follows the songs through rock, jazz and indie pop, from opening lullaby Stuck On Something Else to the Robert Wyattesque Geraldine, a rare and wise treat from an underrated songwriter.