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...TORI AMOS...
...songs bear a hint of panic hidden in their almost predictable musical passages, almost as if Amos frightened herself with the inaccessibility of "Pele" and is holding back to be accepted by the mainstream music scene again. But for the most part, the album stands up as listenable (think "Tori Amos Lite"), with passages that are doomed to be caught in one's head for hours at a time--which is definitely not a bad thing...
...album and the video to which is featured fairly often on MTV and VH1, waltzes the listener into Amos' haunting world. But what a sweet seduction it is. "How many fates turn around in the overtime?" Amos asks. "Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find?" Most Tori devotees have spent enough time with her albums to interpret her Cheshire Cat-esque questions; and even if one hasn't, simply beginning to ponder them against the sweeping piano background is nothing short of enrapturing...
...supernovas are in from the choirgirl hotel. Boys for Pele had the mesmerizing "Caught a Lite Sneeze;" Under the Pink contained the scandalous "God;" and of course, Little Earthquakes remains a virtual apocalypse of emotion, despite the recent trends of radio stations to overplay "Silent All These Years." Is Tori Amos finally starting to make peace with the demons that drove her to create painfully honest pieces such as Earthquake's "Me and a Gun," which was based on her experience with rape? If she is, are her musical talents strong enough to substitute for the lack of soul-searching...
Absolutely. from the choirgirl hotel may not have packed the striking punch that some of its predecessors did, but it remains a strong and (sigh of relief) graspable addition to Amos' musical career. Plus, as any true Tori fan knows, her albums--however wonderful or perplexing-- increase in meaning and enjoyability through time. In this sense as well, choirgirl hotel is undoubtedly destined to be a triumph...