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Tori Amos Shares a Mystical Tale of Escape and Dragons

Rolling Stone·Maura Johnston·about 1 month ago
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The singer-songwriter’s 18th album is full of fantastical imagery, moving emotions, and callbacks to her storied career Early on her 18th album, Tori Amos sings of being silenced. “Shush yourself, down now,” her narrator’s cigar-smoking captor-slash-husband orders, as drums keep a steady pace and Amos attacks her Bösendorfer piano with a growing fury. Finally, she calls upon someone familiar for inspiration: “I know a girl who wrote ‘Silent All These Years,’” Amos sings, drawing out her vowels to their limits as she calls back to her debut solo single . “Where is she?” Since finding her voice as a solo artist with that gently blooming 1991 cut, Amos has walked a singular path through pop music. Her piano-led songs tackled the constraints and contradictions of womanhood head-on, leavened with acerbic humor, Southern wisdom, and fantastical elements.…

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