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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the singer-songwriter was originally part of a planned stage musical adaptation of Girl, Interrupted.
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- Record Label: Superego
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Contemporary Pop/Rock
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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UncutNov 5, 2021Mann's striking vocals, empathetic and emotional, weave through anxiety and depression, crisis and loss. Melodic arrangements abound. [Dec 2021, p.29]
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Nov 8, 2021Queens Of The Summer Hotel sees her consolidate her position as an adept songwriter capable of addressing difficult subjects with empathy and beauty.
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Nov 29, 2021Expressive and emotive, it’s a work that finds delicacy and diligence operating on equal footing.
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Nov 5, 2021It may fall on the more mellow and restrained side of her catalogue, but this is a record to be savored—mining beauty (and yes, some humor) from pain is an Aimee Mann specialty, and this record serves as further testament to that fact.
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Nov 5, 2021The result is songs that often feel anthologized, and without interstitial dialog or music it’s not always clear how the stories they tell relate to one another as part of the narrative arc that will, presumably, someday underpin a stage show. All the same, Mann has created compelling, complex sketches of characters who are more than the cliches of mental illness that so often appear in popular culture.
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Nov 10, 2021It’s a surprising record, and another good example of what makes Mann such an indispensable songwriter, but it’s hard for most of these songs to stand alone – we’re left wondering what’s really going on between these melancholy ruminations.
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MojoNov 5, 2021Mann's voice remains exquisite, her lyrics cinematically vivid, often painfully so, but the album possesses a chimerical looseness, a fuzzy aimless drift that is simultaneously haunting and somniferous. [Dec 2021, p.87]
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Positive: 2 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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Nov 12, 2021
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Nov 6, 2021Really good, but everything she puts out is really good. Is it transcendent? No. It’s a B- for me.
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Nov 11, 2021
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Nov 14, 2021every song in the album sounds the exact same. wow it was awful. don't buy nor listen to this horrible trash..
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