Mental Illness

Mental Illness is Aimee Mann’s quintessential statement, tempering the discord of life with elegant chamber folk. Mann fills her songs with ordinary people struggling against operatic levels of pain.

The songs on Mental Illness paint bleak, sparse pictures of characters pondering loneliness, mistakes and, in particular,…

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Calling an album Mental Illness invites audiences to consider the collection confessional.

Aimee Mann is the reliable troubadour of our age. Active for three decades, her output rarely surprises these days, and rarely proves a letdown.

Mental Illness is one of Mann’s most ravishing and affecting hymns to solitude.

If there’s ever been any doubt as to Mann’s poetic sensibilities, let them be laid to rest.