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MagnetOct 22, 2012A sameness of style makes things feel a little redundant, but taken in discreet portions, these tunes are unimpeachable. [No.92 p.55]
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Oct 1, 2012Once again, we have a very good recording from a very talented singer, songwriter, and performer.
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MojoSep 19, 2012Charmer is in essence an Americana and power-pop confection with piano and tasteful guitars swaddled in the choicest vintage tones. [Oct 2012, p.83]
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Sep 19, 2012The music on Charmer could be classified as pop psychedelica (think of The Beatles circa 1965 with modern synths and production). The instrumentation is always bright, even when the lyrics get dark.
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UncutSep 17, 2012Charmer plies the familiar recipe on a bed of pealing guitars and burbling synths. [Oct 2012, p.84]
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Sep 17, 2012Another sweet viper's bite of post-Freudian dyspepsia from the singersongwriter who loves to mistrust.
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Sep 17, 2012Her livelier numbers, of which there are quite a few, aren't exactly frivolous, but they have a pulse and plenty of color which, combined with album's concise running time, give Charmer the feel of an immediate, engaging pop record.
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Sep 20, 2012Thirty years in, Mann continues to charm, a hidden glint in her eye.
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Sep 19, 2012The simple fact that Aimee Mann continues writing songs around these distressing observations and putting them out on such achingly beautiful records seems proof that-despite all the twisted, cutting truths she's spied under the lens of her artistic microscope--she still somehow clings to the sable cloud's silver flash.
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Sep 18, 2012More often than not on Charmer, though, she is able to match her ideas to music with real kick.
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Sep 24, 2012For all of the down and doubtful lyrics on Charmer, Mann has never sounded like more of a natural.
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Q MagazineOct 23, 2012She's good and snarky on Charmer. [Nov 2012, p. 101]
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Sep 18, 2012Charmer, her eighth studio album, represents a sunny turn for her, at least in relative terms.
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Under The RadarSep 17, 2012The record doesn't veer far from the template Mann has established over the last decade. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.122]
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Sep 17, 2012Charmer is at its finest during the most subdued, quietly detailed stretches, which veer closer to what we've heard from Mann on past efforts.
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Sep 17, 2012There is some magic to Mann's music and it's often hard to define.
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Oct 15, 2012It doesn't really work for either audience it aspires to please, and I'm left feeling a bit bored.
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Sep 25, 2012There's little new here, and even less charm.
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Sep 18, 2012Too many tracks flirt with flat inconsequentiality, and too often the lyrics slip by without the sting of Mann's normally incisive wordsmithery.