Charmer by Aimee Mann

As with nearly all of her albums, there’s a bit of reserve to Charmer that makes the record easier to appreciate than to embrace enthusiastically.

For all of the down and doubtful lyrics on Charmer, Mann has never sounded like more of a natural. 

Charmer is charming, even if it is sometimes difficult to explain why.

It’s full of tracks that don’t blow away you away yet so it won’t be the long overdue breakthrough album, but everything I think about this album is everything I think about indie-schmindie pop songs.