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Mental Illness is the ninth studio album by singer-songwriter Aimee Mann. It was released on March 31, 2017, by SuperEgo Records. Mann has described it as her "saddest, slowest and most acoustic" album to date. In an interview with Elle magazine, Mann said that the song "Goose Snow Cone" was inspired by a photo of a friend's cat which she received while on tour in Ireland. The song "Patient Zero" was written following a meeting Mann and her husband, Michael Penn, had with actor Andrew Garfield.

Aimee Mann – Mental Illness. The singer-songwriter plays into her melancholic reputation with grace and conviction. In a world full of self-consciously clever and willfully obtuse album titles, Mental Illness is the equivalent of washing someone’s mouth out with soap. Instead, it smacks of cold reality. In an interview with Rolling Stone in January, Mann called Mental Illness the saddest, slowest record of her 35-plus-year career. Her latest collection finds her singing love-spurned tales of heartache, anger, and remorse, giving the emotionally loaded title some added weight

Calling an album Mental Illness invites audiences to consider the collection confessional. Savvy singer/songwriter that she is, Aimee Mann is surely aware her compositions are often construed as autobiography, which is precisely the wrong way to view her work, especially on an album as intricate as this. Designed as the "saddest, slowest, most acoustic" record she could create, Mental Illness is a suite of character sketches and vignettes exploring all manner of melancholic maladjustment

Courtesy of the artist. As a musician, Aimee Mann has long indulged her bleaker side, dating all the way back to her mid-'80s debut as the lead singer of 'Til Tuesday. Mann is nothing if not an intellectually lively songwriter, not to mention a deeply funny person, so there's much more to Mental Illness than mere dirges, or waltzes, or rundowns of life's accumulated disappointments. Most notably, these songs are buoyantly catchy in their own way, with calmly dispensed beauty that consistently outweighs their dourness.

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The singer-songwriter released her ninth studio album, 'Mental Illness,' on March 31. Sometimes you finally have to gravitate back toward what Irving Berlin called doin’ what comes natur’lly - and in Aimee Mann’s case, what comes naturally is slower and somberer. Talking with Billboard, Mann touched on why she has momentarily abandoned rocking out, where she and her producer fell on the ake divide, the varieties and definitions of mental illness, and whether Donald Trump counts when it comes to the titular subject. Mental Illness marks a big a stylistic change-up from your last couple of projects, (2012’s) Charmer and (2014’s) The Both, which had a lot of power pop going on. This one is all about the mellow gold. Was there a conscious thought during the writing to make a pendulum swing back toward quieter sounds?

But she's the one who'd make the catch. The tone throughout is almost as hopeless as that of a Stephin Merritt album. The only thing that keeps it from being out-and-out bleak is Mann's gentle and often self-deprecating sense of humor; . in the LP's closing number, "Poor Judgment", she explains to her lover that falling for him was like "a dream of a car with the brake lines cut," and muses that he stays with her because "The. hammer's nothing without the nail. The most compelling song on Mental Illness (and the first single) is the album's opening track, "Goose Snow.

Mental Illness is the ninth studio album by singer-songwriter Aimee Mann. It was released on March 31, 2017, by SuperEgo Records Mental Illness. find yourself getting lost in this album’s sonic textures" and that with Mental Illness "Aimee Mann continues to be one of the most gripping storytellers writing music today". Dw. Dunphy of Popdose notes that, while the music in Mental Illness is gorgeous, this isn't a "feel good" album. But, for those in the right frame of mind, it's "a warm, plush comforter to crawl into when the self-pity stops working. Mann announced the tour, along with the album itself, on January 17, 2017

I received Mental Illness on Friday, and probably played it 10 times in the last 2 days. This one seems really special. Mental Illness" feels more like a traditional Aimee Mann album and all her wit and somewhat caustic view of the world is present here, together with the clean melodies present in so many of her best tracks over the years. 3 people found this helpful.