Album Review: Queens of the Summer Hotel by Aimee Mann

Queens Of The Summer Hotel, Aimee Mann‘s 10th studio album, was written for a stage adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, the memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen about her time at the McLean psychiatric hospital in the late 1960s. Although the pandemic resulted in the show itself being temporarily shelved (details of when or if it will go ahead are still to be confirmed) Mann made the decision to press ahead with the release of the music on its own, and the quality of the 15 songs on the album proves it was definitely the right move. Her songs have previously enjoyed success in similar soundtracking environments, most notably on Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 film Magnolia.

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