molotov's Full Review: From the Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos
If Boys For Pele represented yet another effort at cleansing exorcism, then 1998’s comparatively unquirky From The Choirgirl Hotel sees Tori Amos checking back in to the Raisin Girl Zeitgeist by supplementing her siren-song sound with a tight, traditionally-arrayed backing band. Its arrangements sporting a welcome heft, Choirgirl finds Amos reigning in some of her more hysterically esoteric instincts while still successfully straddling the stylistic extremes of “Raspberry Swirl” – a deliciously throbbing romp reeking of damply enjoined genitalia – and “Northern Lad” – a bittersweet ballad evoking some of the same ache that Joni Mitchell mined in “A Case of You.” In “Lad,” Amos also seems to acknowledge – if not entirely apologize for – her preceding release’s often mystifying minimalism:
Girls, you’ve got to know
When it’s time to turn the page…
I guess you go too far
When pianos try to be guitars
Maybe so. But as with Pele, Tori Amos proves yet again that nobody “goes too far” in quite the same thrilling way as this heroically unhinged original.
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