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Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin
| Rollingstones |
| After splitting into five separate personalities for 2007's American Doll Posse, Tori Amos pulls herself back together again on her latest. The result is a set of prog-inspired balladry with less bounce than her last disc. The plodding "Strong Black Vine" has Amos saving folks from "that evil faith" over strings straight out of Zeppelin's "Kashmir," and "Police Me" is a multitracked mess of percussion, orchestration and New Wave synth lines. Among the standouts: the ballad "Maybe California," a tender show of empathy for a mother about to throw herself off a cliff....full text |
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| Spin |
| On her tenth studio album, Tori Amos writes no less penetratingly than she did on her first about the way women navigate the intersection between sex and power. "By the time you're 25, they will say, 'You've gone and blown it,' " she sings in "Curtain Call." "By the time you're 35, I must confide, you will have blown them all." Unfortunately, these hook-starved arrangements tend toward a static brand of ambient cabaret, which makes Amos' lyrics easy to tune out. Too many little earthquakes, not enough seismic jolts....full text |
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From the blood-soaked opening thumps of "Abnormally Attracted to Sin," it's obvious that Tori Amos is still the reigning muse for mystic goth girls. A 17-song steam trunk of an album, the new collection strikes a canny balance between Victorian-inspired decadence, mythical pathos and arch camp. For all her theatrics, Amos is also the warm and wise sister-goddess, passing on advice she's learned the hard way. "Abnormally Attracted to Sin," a wild-girl wink of a title if there ever was one, is rife with idiosyncrasies. "Welcome to England" is a silken glove with a few dropped stitches, specifically a guitar line that sounds borrowed from an '80s sitcom theme. Occasionally Amos, her British husband-producer Mark Hawley and co-producer Marcel Van Limbeek smear too much pancake makeup on an already gussied up affair. But when the record hits the sweet slithery spot, like on the title track, the album's themes of temptation -- whether that be to fundamental religion, self-destruction or self-medicating vices -- simmer together with wit and heart....full text |
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