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Article: Mann Works Out the Kinks
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 30, 1993
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IT'S BEEN FOUR long years since Aimee Mann's last album, the
cruelly underrated and overlooked "Everything's Different Now," which
documented the breakup of a romance in a suite of perfect pop
meditations. Mann recently reemerged with a new solo album called
"Whatever," and everything's really different now.
The singer/songwriter has retired the band name 'til Tuesday, for
starters. "It just seemed ridiculous to hang on to it, because it was
just me and {percussionist} Michael Hausman on the last album," Mann
says from her home in Boston. "And I was pretty much doing this
record with {producer} Jon Brion, who is sort of a one-man band."
Mann also got out of her contract with Epic Records ...