Queens Of The Summer Hotel

Description

Aimee Mann returns with the new album 'Queens Of The Summer Hotel' via Super Ego Records. This album contains 15 songs inspired by the book "Girl Interrupted," written by Susannah Kaysen. Mann began developing the new music in 2018 when she agreed to write songs for a stage adaptation of "Girl, Interrupted," Susannah Kaysen's memoir about her psychiatric hospitalization in the late 1960s. It was material that Mann understood well, having had her own struggles with mental illness. The resulting music comes together in 'Queens of The Summer Hotel.' The album consists of a cycle of songs built from the music that Mann wrote for the show, sung by Mann and orchestrated with her longtime collaborator Paul Bryan, using strings and woodwinds as a nod to the theatrical origins of the project. Available on CD and vinyl.