Tori Amos

From the Choirgirl Hotel bites with its anger and sadness. Following up the album, a year later, is a collection of more atmospheric alt jams that she was inspired to write on her Plugged tour. To Venus and Back was originally supposed to be a b-sides and live double album. …

When Tori Amos released Scarlet’s Walk twenty years ago, she was at a professional crossroads; she had several successful albums under her belt while at Atlantic Records but had found that her professional relationship with the label had disintegrated over time. She’d found a new home at Sony Records in…

You could hear chimes of what was to come from her 1995 contributions to the Higher Learning soundtrack. There is a taste of horns and more abstract songwriting on “Butterfly” that would be much more prominent on her third album. …

Coming off her debut smash, Little Earthquakes, Amos began work on her follow-up, Under the Pink. The record would add more to its production: orchestral strings, a prepared piano, and guest vocals from Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor. …

Tori is always honest. This candid quality is what makes her debut solo album, Little Earthquakes, on a whole other level. Tori Amos was no stranger to the music industry before this. Her previous foray with band Y Kant Tori Read, released in 1988, failed to register at all. Jaded…

(This is a love letter, not an album review.) Middle-age has added two flaws to my growing list, both unavoidable. First, hairs of startling length growing out of my eyebrows, and second, nostalgia. I’ll speak no more of the former, but oh, nostalgia—the fondness with which I remember my teens…

CW: rape, abuse, transphobia, homophobia, anti-Black violence On June 16, 2022, Tori Amos performed her a capella song, “Me and a Gun” at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre for the first time since 2011. Her performances of this song over the years have varied somewhat; most often simply holding a microphone…

Cloud on My Tongue, Under the Pink. Thought I was over the bridge now Over the bridge now. I’m already in Circles and circles and circles again The girl’s in circles and circles Got to stop spinning This song evokes fairy tale imagery throughout. The narrator thinks she is safe…