Aimee Mann at the NPR Music Tiny Desk | via NPR Music

Heritage singer-songwriter Aimee Mann returned this year with her first album in five years, Mental Illness, and she recently stopped by NPR Music’s offices to showcase the new music for Bob Boilen and the team. “Clearly, there’s a deep honesty within these songs,” writes Boilen, who praises Mann for her long-running use of humor in songs to offset more melancholic themes. Below, watch her perform “Rollercoasters,” “You Never Loved Me,” “Goose Snow Cone” and “Patient Zero.”