{"id":7370,"date":"2012-09-12T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7370"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T05:02:59","slug":"aimee-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/09\/aimee-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"AIMEE MANN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7371\" title=\"AIMEE-MANN-M-Review-JulyAugust2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AIMEE-MANN-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AIMEE-MANN-M-Review-JulyAugust2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/AIMEE-MANN-M-Review-JulyAugust2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>IMEE MANN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Charmer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[SuperEgo]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cCharmer\u201d is less a term of endearment for Aimee Mann than it is a source of curiosity: What are they after, these charming people? What\u2019s their angle? Mann, who made her name as a member of the Boston New Wave band \u2019Til Tuesday, explores the concept on her eighth studio album, a collection of smart songs drawn from what she calls the \u201csuper pop\u201d of the 1970s and \u201980s. The sound suits Mann, who\u2019s always had a way with hooks like the muscular, blaring keyboard figure heard on the title track and the ebb-and-flow vocal melody on the rueful \u201cLabrador.\u201d On the latter, she interpolates a snippet of the 19th century pop ditty \u201cDaisy Bell,\u201d better known as \u201cBicycle Built for Two,\u201d in a way that\u2019s as unexpected as it is perfect. She duets with the Shins\u2019 James Mercer on \u201cLiving a Lie,\u201d examining the sort of life enabled by a charm backfire, and on the easy rolling \u201cSoon Enough,\u201d she foretells some messy predicament. Over the years, Mann has raised bemused regret to an art form, and with songs that are knowing, wry and effortlessly catchy, <em>Charmer<\/em> ranks among her strongest work.\u00a0 \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIMEE MANN Charmer [SuperEgo] \u201cCharmer\u201d is less a term of endearment for Aimee Mann than it is a source of curiosity: What are they after, these charming people? What\u2019s their angle? Mann, who made her name as a member of the Boston New Wave band \u2019Til Tuesday, explores the concept on her eighth studio album, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[4791,196,4792,4538,4793],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}