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Gone are the Mellotrons and some of the other distinctive signature sounds of yore.

2 and the Magnolia soundtrack, the gorgeous melodies and deliberate gait of this return to contemplative form will seem deliciously familiar.Īt the same time, the arrangements mark a break from anything she’s done before, even those aforementioned landmark albums. If you fell in love with earlier albums like Bachelor No. After a couple of records that saw Mann leaning toward the rockier side (her last solo album, 2012’s Charmer, followed by her 2014 duo project with Ted Leo, The Both), this new one finds the woman who gave the world “Wise Up” again deciding to slow up. What kind of pre-existing conditions come with Mental Illness? Some fans will see the album as a return to more musically familiar territory. I mean, calling it Mental Illness makes me laugh, because it is true, but it’s so blunt that it’s funny.” “I always probably have a little bit of gallows humor,” Mann says, “and I would hope that people see there’s a little bit of that interspersed in there.

“And I said, ‘Oh, you know me - the usual songs about mental illness.’ He said, ‘You should call it Mental Illness!’ I said, ‘I think I will.’” And thus, over the course of a few short seconds, was a classic album title born. “It came from a friend of mine asking me what the record was about,” she explains. For her, its provocative branding comes down to something akin to truth in advertising. Aimee Mann’s first new solo album in five years arrives with a title loaded with possible meanings and intent.