Tori Amos – Ocean to Ocean (Album)

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Ocean to Ocean is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on October 29, 2021. A vinyl release will follow on January 28, 2022. Amos will support the album with a UK and Europe tour in February and March 2022.

Amos wrote and recorded album while in lockdown in Cornwall, where she lives, with her writing inspired by her fascination with “the county’s landscapes and ancient myths”. Part of her writing was also explained to be in reaction to the US Capitol riots in January 2021.

In a press release, Amos described the album as “a record about your losses, and how you cope with them”. She elaborated that she realized she had to “write” to “shift” her perception of herself, saying: “I was in my own private hell, so I told myself, then that’s where you write from—you’ve done it before.” Amos also explained that the album is intended to “sit” with listeners, particularly if they are “in a place of loss. […] When somebody is actually at that place, thinking ‘I’m done,’ how do you reach that person? […] It’s about sitting in the muck together.”

Tracklist:

01.Addition of Light Divided
02.Speaking With Trees
03.Devil’s Bane
04.Swim to New York State
05.Spies
06.Ocean to Ocean
07.Flowers Burn to Gold
08.Metal Water Wood
09.29 Years
10.How Glass is Made
11.Birthday Baby

OVERALL RATING: 4 stars

Tori Amos – Native Invader (Album)

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Native Invader is the fifteenth studio album by American singer/songwriter Tori Amos. It was released on September 8, 2017, through Decca Records. Its lead single, “Cloud Riders”, was released on July 27, 2017.

As press release says: “The songs on Native Invader are being pushed by the Muses to find different ways of facing unforeseen challenges and in some cases dangerous conflicts. The record looks to Nature and how, through resilience, she heals herself. The songs also wrestle with the question: what is our part in the destruction of our land, as well as ourselves, and in our relationships with each other?

In life there can be the shock of unexpected fires, floods, earthquakes, or any cataclysmic ravager – both on the inside and outside of our minds. Sonically and visually, I wanted to look at how Nature creates with her opposing forces, becoming the ultimate regenerator through her cycles of death and re-birth. Time and time again she is able to renew, can we find this renewal for ourselves?”

Tracklist:

1. Reindeer King
2. Wings
3. Broken Arrow
4. Cloud Riders
5. Up the Creek
6. Breakaway
7. Wildwood
8. Chocolate Song
9. Bang
10. Climb
11. Bats
12. Benjamin
13. Mary’s Eyes
14. Upside Down 2
15. Russia

OVERALL RATING

4 stars