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- Summary: The singer-songwriter takes on her reputation for acoustic, depressing and dark songs with her ninth full-length studio release produced by Paul Bryan.
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- Record Label: Superego
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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You Never Loved Me | |
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Boy, when you go, you go Three thousand miles just so I'll know You never loved me You never loved me Then when you're gone, you're gone I know the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 16
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Mixed: 1 out of 16
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Negative: 0 out of 16
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Mar 21, 2017For 44 minutes, Mann slips into the skin of someone walking an emotional tightrope, and it’s an act she pulls of with grace and conviction.
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UncutMar 21, 2017Mental Illness is as elegantly dark as a wrought iron gate. [May 2017, p.35]
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Mar 21, 2017A compelling consistency of mood makes Metal Illness easy to get lost in. [May 2017, p.94]
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Mar 30, 2017These songs are crafted in the best sense of the word, with the lyrics delivering sublime twists that the music matches. As such, Mental Illness becomes something of a balm for troubled times; it's an album that finds reassurance within the darkest corners.
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Apr 20, 2017Mental 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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Apr 3, 2017Juxtaposing elegant chamber folk against the discord of lives out of balance, it’s musically more delicate than even her soft rock models.
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Mar 28, 2017Mental Illness remains more of the same, never quite hitting any peaks, and never missing a step either.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Negative: 1 out of 5
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