{"id":27022,"date":"2017-03-22T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T23:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=27022"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T18:06:12","slug":"watch-aimee-manns-affecting-new-video-for-goose-snow-cone-and-pick-up-her-great-new-album-mental-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2017-03\/watch-aimee-manns-affecting-new-video-for-goose-snow-cone-and-pick-up-her-great-new-album-mental-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Aimee Mann’s Affecting New Video for “Goose Snow Cone” And Pick Up Her Great New Album “Mental Illness”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Long-time Lefort-fave Aimee Mann<\/strong><\/a> is back with a new, critically-acclaimed album entitled Mental Illness<\/strong><\/em>. As usual with this artist, the album (Mann’s<\/strong> ninth) features superb songwriting, arrangements and performances that frame well\u00a0Mann’s<\/strong>\u00a0signature vocals. The sound is a bit more restrained on the new album than on some of her recordings, but sweetly so and embellished by soul-stirring strings, which match well the album’s somber themes (whether, as suggested by some,\u00a0Mann<\/strong> is merely playing into people’s perceptions of her as melancholic and putting us on a bit–she’s actually oft-hilarious as you can read from her Twitter tweets<\/strong><\/a>–or baring all, we leave to you dear discerners).<\/p>\n

Today Mann<\/strong> revealed a new video for the affecting song Goose Snow Cone<\/strong><\/em> off the album. About the song and video Mann<\/strong> says: \u201cI wrote \u201cGoose Snow Cone<\/strong><\/em>\u201d when I was on tour in Ireland, on a cold and snowy day. I was feeling very homesick when I saw a picture on Instagram of a cat I know named Goose. Her fluffy white face was looking up at the camera in a very plaintive way, like a little snowball, and I started singing a little song about her that turned into a song about loneliness. I intended to change the lyrics but could never find a phrase to replace the one I started with. When it came time to make a video, I knew the original Goose had to be in it. Her owners are my friends Rob and Puloma who coincidentally produce and direct videos. One of my cats had recently gone through a long illness and I was thinking about that when I came up with the idea for the video, and I knew Puloma had to star in it, as she has a very lovely and expressive face. The vet in the video is my actual vet and he\u2019s a great guy. It was not easy wrangling Goose but the magic of editing makes it all work!\u201d<\/p>\n

We completely concur. Oh, and the song is more melodic and moving magic from Mann\u00a0<\/strong>(lyrics at bottom).<\/p>\n

To get more feel for Mental Illness<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(the album) check out the\u00a0previously released video for the similarly magical Patient Zero<\/strong><\/em>, which you can watch following today’s video.\u00a0Mann<\/strong> is also out on tour in support of the album (see dates below the videos).<\/p>\n

You can pre-order Mental Illness<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>in all formats along with various accoutrements HERE<\/a><\/strong>. The album will be officially released on March 31st<\/strong>.<\/p>\n