Charmer CD

MUSIC

POP

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Charmer ~ Aimee Mann

2. Disappeared ~ Aimee Mann

3. Labrador ~ Aimee Mann

4. Crazytown ~ Aimee Mann

5. Soon Enough ~ Aimee Mann

6. Living A Lie ~ Aimee Mann

7. Slip and Roll ~ Aimee Mann

8. Gumby ~ Aimee Mann

9. Gamma Ray ~ Aimee Mann

10. Barfly ~ Aimee Mann

11. Red Flag Diver ~ Aimee Mann

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Aimee Mann (vocals, acoustic guitar); Jamie Edwards (electric guitar, piano, keyboards, tubular bells); Chris Bruce (electric guitar); Jebin Bruni (piano, keyboards); Paul Bryan (Mellotron, background vocals); J.J. Johnson (drums); Jay Bellerose (percussion).
	Audio Mixer: Ryan Freeland.
	Illustrator: Ed Sherman.
	Photographer: Sheryl Nields.
	Aimee Mann began to bounce back toward pure pop with @#%&*! Smilers, but that 2008 album retained a lingering hangover from her records with Jon Brion and Joe Henry, albums that were sober-minded in more ways than one. That's not the case with 2012's Charmer. Once again working with producer Paul Bryan, who has every one of her albums since the 2006 seasonal set One More Drifter in the Snow, Mann has brightened her palette considerably, surrounding herself with synthesizers and trebly guitars, keeping the hooks spiky and precise. She has never shied away from melody, not even when she immersed herself in the narrative of The Forgotten Arm, but it's been a long time since she's been so insistently pop in either her composition or her construction. Which isn't to say Charmer is a garish, neon-colored, new wave revival record; she still has a fondness for stately midtempo marches like "Slip & Roll" and "Barfly," songs that threaten to slip into somnolence, keeping the album anchored in some measure of meditation. Her livelier numbers, of which there are quite a few, aren't exactly frivolous, but they have a pulse and plenty of color which, combined with album's concise running time (the only songs to slip over the four-minute mark are the aforementioned marches, most clock in near to three), give Charmer the feel of an immediate, engaging pop record, something that Mann has threatened to deliver for many years but has always kept in reserve. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Producer: Paul Bryan
Engineer: Paul Bryan; Ryan Freeland

Compilation Appearances

	Hold Your Fire
	Cruel Intentions
	I Am Sam
	Night Time
	Oh! From The Girls
	Chronicles (w/ Bonus DVD)
	Last Kiss
	Former Lives

Associated Artists and Works

Original Soundtrack

Technical Info

	Release Date : 2012
	Original Release Date : 2012
	Catalog ID : SE 090
	Label : Superego
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00698519003027

Professional Reviews

Q (Magazine)
(p.101)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "When it comes to concealing complex emotions in a pretty package, Mann's songs -- produced and polished to a pop sheen -- pull off the same trick."

Mojo (Publisher)
(p.83)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "CHARMER is in essence an Americana and powerpop confection with piano and tasteful guitars swaddled in the choicest vintage tones."

Paste (magazine)
- "Shot through with distant, luminescent synths, CHARMER teems with loss and loneliness."