Album Review - Aimee Mann - The Forgotten Arm
By T.J. Simon

On her fifth solo release since her "big hair" days with 'Til Tuesday,
Aimee Mann draws upon the talents of producer Joe Henry to help her to
craft a brilliant concept album entitled The Forgotten Arm. This
creative partnership between the sister-in-law of Sean Penn (Mann) and
the brother-in-law of Madonna (Henry) proves to be a successful
collaboration that, in short, has yielded Mann's best work to date.

For the record, both Mann and Henry share a very literary approach to
songwriting, and either could have been successful in other creative
media. From a storytelling perspective, The Forgotten Arm is
structured as a series of vignettes from the troubled romantic
relationship of John and Caroline. Of course, any conceptual work is
only as good as the individual tunes that propel the story forward,
and in this case, the songs themselves are irresistible. At times, The
Forgotten Arm rocks harder than any other album that Mann has released
to date, and thanks to Henry's multi-layered, textural production,
there's a ton of music happening in each of its dozen tracks.


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