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...twinge of heartache in the leading edge of her voice, muses about being an outsider: “A little left of center” and “a little out of tune.” It’s comparatively stripped down and, not coincidentally, probably the album??s best track. Branch also shows hints of an alternate persona towards the album??s close. On “Drop in the Ocean,” gone is the infectious jaunt and impulse of earlier tracks, and in its place is a more tortured soul...
None of which helps to make sense of the rest of the album??Amos would never do anything as simple as presenting women as victims of male songwriters, or even as victorious over misogynist songwriters. Her take on 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” turns a slightly cutesy heartbreak ballad into a mechanist over-you diatribe worthy of Kraftwerk in its soulless accompaniment. She deadpans so flawlessly that there really is no doubt about her feelings towards the unfortunate subject of her song—let us hope...
...Neil Young’s “Heart of Gold”—this slightly mournful folk song she warps into a blistering Valkyrie ride atop distorted guitars and multi-layered wailing vocals. At this point one starts to lose the supposed thread of the album??“Heart of Gold” is no more obviously about women, or men, than, say, “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” The Boomtown Rats’ “I Don?...
...lyrics are intoned in almost religious fashion. Again, the link to portrayals of women, or anything very much beyond sinister apocalyptic omens, is vague at best; the song is perhaps more a tribute from Tori’s days in her early metal band Y Kant Tori Read. The album??s closing track is a gender-bending version of Joe Jackson’s “Real Men,” in which the question about “who the real men are” becomes yet more doubtful in Tori’s endlessly transforming...
...Jeff Buckley or Thom Yorke, let alone Jimmy Sommerville. Alas, despite occasional exceptions like Tracy Chapman, the reverse doesn’t seem to be true nearly as often. Fortunately, Thalia Zedek, formerly the vocalist for Come and Uzi, has such a female baritone voice showcased on this album??part Leonard Cohen (whom she covers on the elegiac “Dance Me to the End of Love”), part Nick Cave, with the phrasing and sensibility of gloomed out Elliot Smith...