![]() ![]() ![]() Even when he takes a guitar solo, it's tastefully tamped-down. ![]() That may have contributed to the consistency of the songs' restrained sound, though the tracks produced by Mann and her husband, Michael Penn (who provided the score to Anderson's Hard Eight), have the same minimal, orchestral pop tone. That bold proclamation aside, most of Mann's breezy yet noir-flecked pop songs are produced by Jon Brion (who's also produced Fiona Apple, Anderson's girlfriend), and Brion plays many of the instruments. Director Paul Thomas Anderson ( Boogie Nights, Hard Eight) explains in his fawning liner notes how when he heard the songwriter's work in progress, he wrote the film around one of Mann's characters. The soundtrack to Magnolia is essentially the long-awaited new album by diva of the underdogs Aimee Mann nine of the album's 13 songs are hers. ![]()
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