Introspective songstress Aimee Mann released her sixth album (not counting the Christmas album or 'Til Tuesday) on Tuesday and as always, the album is great. The album is called @#%&*! Smilers or Fucking Smilers as it is properly dubbed.The album is sonically different than her previous works, mostly because there are no electric guitars on the album. Aimee Mann and her bass player Paul Bryan (who also produced the album) decided to let piano, synths, other keys, strings and horns fill out the sonic space usually filled with electric guitars. She really pulls it off and delivers a batch of songs that are as good as any she's written before.
Watch Aimee Mann, Paul Bryan and keyboard player Jamie Edwards play seven songs on the KCRW program Morning Becomes Eclectic. Aimee also talks to host Nic Harcourt about the new album and her annual Christmas tour among other things.
The set includes:
Freeway
Thirty One Today
Phoenix
The Great Beyond
(interview)
Borrowed Time
Little Tornado
Columbus Avenue
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