Aimee Mann: @#%&*! Smilers
Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 June 2008
PERHAPS HEARTENED BY the (artistic) success of 2006's One More Drifter in the Snow — the only serious addition to the ranks of Christmas albums since Low's Christmas — Aimee Mann and her producer Paul Bryan continue its vein of artful, elegant melancholia into an album that attempts to counterbalance on its own the vast, overbearing weight of empty cheer habitually pumped out by the entertainment industry.
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