Tori Amos | Unrepentant Geraldines (CD)
Shipping date: September 27, 2021
Out of the flux of ambition and distraction and imagination came Tori Amos's 14th studio album: Unrepentant Geraldines . It a vivid and vital album on which Amos once more zeroes in on the writing of brightly melodic, deftly evocative chamber-pop. Fairy-tale soul poems, you might say. Or, a view from the middle-aged bridge. Women would talk to me about feeling trapped, which is explored a lot in this record there sa freedom I had writing this record.
Unrepentant Geraldines was written over the past few years and recorded entirely in her Cornwall studio with long-time collaborators Mark Hawley and Marcel Van Limbeek, working as a triangle.
2014 brought a fresh approach to creating and working for Tori. The album features Trouble's Lament, an eerie Southern blues song in which Amos's matchless voice conjures up images of how the flames from Satan's tongue are charged and licking at her heels...
America s South makes a tangential appearance in Giant s Rolling Pin. It is a pithy, spry, jig-like satire on the NSA/Edward Snowden affair that also references the magical, truth-giving powers of pies made by Beth, Marlene and Caroline, three remarkable women based out of a café near Amos's beach home in Florida.
From global and institutional politics to personal and emotional ones: Oysters is a classic Amos piano ballad, evocative of her timeless breakthrough album, 1992's Little Earthquakes.
Tracklist:
1. America
2. Trouble's Lament
3. Wild Way
4. Wedding Day
5. Weatherman
6. 16 Shades of Blue
7. Maids of Elfen-mere
8. Promise
9. Giant's Rolling Pin
10. Selkie
11. Unrepentant Geraldines
12. Oysters
13. Rose Dover
14. Invisible Boy
