Welcome Home by Til Tuesday

Welcome Home, 'Til Tuesday's second album, came out on Epic in 1986, the follow-up to Voices Carry, and every song on it was written or co-written by Aimee Mann. The Boston band, Mann singing and playing bass with Robert Holmes on guitar, Joey Pesce on keyboards and Michael Hausman on drums, worked with producer Rhett Davies, who gives them a softer, burnished sound, guitars and keyboards that glow rather than glint. They took it out on a North American tour.

Mann's subject is romance gone to pieces, and the critics argued over how much gloom one record can carry. The Los Angeles Times admired her heartbreak lyrics but wished the music moved faster, the Orlando Sentinel heard something warm and sepia-toned, and The New York Times found it as single-mindedly morose as Sinatra's Only the Lonely. In Spin, Timothy White praised songs that were taut and warmly ironic. "Coming Up Close", a quiet, aching ballad, is the one listeners have held on to.

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