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Mark Bacino is an American singer/songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in New York City. With two critically acclaimed, power-pop obsessed releases to his credit, 1998's "Pop Job" (Parasol) and 2003's "The Million Dollar Milkshake" (Parasol/Nippon Crown), Bacino returns to the fray with “Queens English”; a self-produced album he describes as “sort of a love-letter to NYC & life in its outer-boroughs”. With its eclectic mixture of pop, rock, ragtime-y music hall and orchestral fare, “Queens English” seamlessly blends its palette of tack pianos, acoustic guitars, horns, strings and things into concise, two and a half minute blasts of hook-laden songcraft reminiscent of Nilsson, Newman, solo Macca and “Muswell Hillbillies”-era Kinks. Featuring contributions from Lee Alexander (Norah Jones), Michael Leonhart (Steely Dan/Lenny Kravitz) and Morgan Taylor (Gustafer Yellowgold) amongst others, Mark's "Queens English" is available now via the newly-formed DreamCrush label.