Aimee Mann has been churning out excellent solo albums at a pretty good clip since her 2000 breakthrough Bachelor No. 2.

In 2014 she took a little detour, pairing up with alt-rocker Ted Leo in a band called The Both and releasing a self-titled LP.

It’s hard to decide how seriously to take one-offs like this, especially when the other party is a complete mystery to me, but one listen revealed The Both to be very much in the vein of Mann’s solo work.

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