Mental Illness
by Aimee Mann
  • Record Label: Superego
  • Release Date: Mar 31, 2017
User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 43
  3. Negative: 5 out of 43
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  1. Jono620
    Dec 9, 2017
    3
    If anyone can actually remember what any of these songs sound like after one listen through, they're either lying or they're Aimee Mann stans. This album is incredibly boring and nondescript. It's funny because as soon as I finished listening on Spotify, it went into Aimee Mann radio and started playing some of her older music. What a difference. She used to actually try.

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. No Ripcord
    Apr 20, 2017
    80
    Mental Illness is first and foremost an album about achieving self-sufficiency through trail and blunder. And in doing so, she once again stands tallest, and quietest, in an exceptionally consistent career.
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  2. Q Magazine
    Apr 12, 2017
    80
    These are fine story-songs for any age, era or metal disposition. [Jun 2017, p.107]
  3. Boston Globe
    Apr 3, 2017
    80
    An album rooted in the low end of the emotional spectrum is a risk, but through fastidious instrumental detailing and lyrics that evince sympathy even when they’re at their most cutting, Mann crafts a melancholic atmosphere that is worth repeated listens, whether as a means for catharsis or as a well-crafted cloud to ease the punishing brightness of a too-sunny day.
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