AIMEE MANN

A Career Pinnacle, ‘Mental Illness’ Showcases Aimee Mann’s Best Work Yet

 http://observer.com/2017/04/aimee-mann-mental-illness-interview/

The characters Mann writes about tend not to think such noble thoughts, but if art is largely making something functional out of dysfunction, then Mann just might be our laureate, whether or not the president has called back with the official designation. She’s the kind of artist who’d rather disarm than charm, though maybe you’d be forgiven for even applying the C-word to her bracing musical bewitchery.