Abnormally Attracted To Sin - Tori Amos

Next to 'American Doll Posse', I think this is my favorite Tori album yet. It is everything I love about Tori - her amazing vocals and even more amazing voice, fantastic guitar and piano, and unusual melodies and rhythms - at its strongest. The album starts with 'Give', a hypnotic piece vaguely reminiscent of trance, but spiced up with Tori's characteristic melodic piano playing. The lyrics offer a vampiric take on love (not necessarily lust) which is intriguing and which compliments the music perfectly. The piece is haunting, exciting, and perhaps the best on the album. Other gems include 'Abnormally Attracted to Sin' (the title piece), 'Fast ...  Read the complete review

This is Tori's 10th studio album as a solo artist (its hard to say exactly how many releases she has actually had with the numerous bootlegs released under her name both officially and otherwise) & its amazing to think she has been releasing stuff on her own since 1992 but she has been recording since 1988 (the now infamous "Y Kant Tori Read" which you've got to be a HUGE fan to have even heard of, let alone own). Tori is quite an aquired taste, one of those "Marmite" muscians that you either love or hate however with some of her tracks there is a little middle ground but not much! So whats on the album? 1 - ...  Read the complete review