Sinfully Delicious, 4 Out Of 5 Stars
Tori Amos has been forging her own path ever since she fled America in the wake of "Y Kant Tori Read," an album that had her fronting an oddball mix of glam rock and Kate Bush. When she found success on her own terms with Little Earthquakes, she never looked back. But given that she's been making records for almost 20 years and this is only her 10th studio album, it's striking that she's still cheerfully tinkering with the formula.
"Abnormally Attracted To Sin" has much of you'd expect from Tori. The avant-garde-ish mix of sound, the poetic imagery, the quasi-religious (or to some, blasphemous) imagery, and her gliding piano. This time, there's more an electronic edge that The Beekeeper and fewer thematic ties than American Doll Posse. In fact, if anything to these ears, Tori is really back to embracing that inner Kate Bush. Songs like "Welcome To England" and the theatrical "That Guy" really beg the comparisons, in a good way.
There's plenty to like here if you're a Tori fan. At 12 songs, you need to be prepared for a big dose of Tori, yet there's so much here that I have a hard time taking it all in. Again, this is in a good way. I've been taking in "AAtS" at a few song at a time and I'm still finding favorites. Right now, it's the ballad "Hello California." A couple weeks ago it was the slightly psychedelic "500 Miles." And when I first popped this CD in the player, it was "That Guy." Given that I've had "Sin" for a couple of months and yet to tire of it - as well as finding new favorites every couple listens - this could be one of Tori's best to date.
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