Aimee Mann

Discovering a beautiful booklet by noted Guelph indie comic book artist, SETH, inside Aimee Mann’s Lost In Space CD made her my new personal hero. Let’s hear it for the surprising coolness factor of a strong female role model in the male dominated, non traditional art practices of song writing and comics. Especially since Mann does it independently. Her label SuperEgo Records is an archetype for success outside the traditional record biz model. Lost in Space is a sad collection of 11 songs linked by the recurring topics of drugs and superheroes. With quirky, girlie vocals, Mann speaks, as always, for the terminally fucked up, and renders complicated melodies with complex lyrics, in unique and challenging song structures. Lost in Space is a universal, unisex masterpiece well worth exploring. Okay, so I’m peddling addiction. I’m also pushing a sweet success story. And I do hope this proves to be your gateway record, a gateway to the harder stuff of our new hero and guys like Mann.
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was it 2001? i was in manhattan, long before moving to guelph... this was the first music review i ever wrote or had published. Lola named it shotgun review of the year, and they were an award winning magazine so I was very p r o u d.