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artist:
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Tori Amos |
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album:
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From The Choirgirl Hotel |
| format: |
CD |
| label: |
Atlantic Records |
| performance: |
7 |
| sound |
8 |
| reviewed by: |
Dan MacIntosh |
Bottom line; if you are a devoted Tori Amos fan and you haven't already
picked up this album, you'll need to. However, if you are not a
card-carrying member of the Tori Amos fan club there are a few
intangibles that may make you think twice before putting this one on
the plastic. First, this is Tori Amos' first album in which she "wanted
to be a player with other players." In other words, even though she
once more wrote and produced the whole album, this time Tori has
branched out from the intimacy of just her and her piano.
For the avid fan, this shift provides a very different, very
compelling new wrinkle in Amos' sound. However, what seems to have been
put on the back-burner (at least for the time being) is that rabid,
raging passion we've all come to know and love from this vociferous
vixen. There are shades of this passion, most noteably in her first
single "Spark," yet this album mostly ends up becoming something which
may be better than average but falls short of the tremendous heights
Tori's talent is capable of.
