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Aggeelife
Monday • January 29,1?) P a 8 e 5 *
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Terrible Tori
Pete ruined by mediocre lyrics, vocals
By Amy Uptmor
The Battalion
Tori Amos’ new album, Boys
for Pele, is a perplexing album
to listen to, to say the least.
On one hand, it’s a beautiful
ly melodic album by one of mu
sic’s most mysterious leading
women, so a certain level of
quality is a given.
And that level of quality
does appear in small doses, but
unfortunately this album is
such a step down from Amos’
previous albums that it doesn’t
even deserve to sit on the CD
rack next to Little Earthquakes
or Under the Pink.
Boys for Pele is Amos’ first
self-produced album, which
represents a bold, although not
entirely wise, move on her part.
This 18-track album is a la
bor of love to sit through, even
for the most devout Amos fans.
That could possibly be attrib
uted to the fact that Amos’
strongest, most endearing qual
ities are almost impossible to
find on Boys for Pele.
Although this is one of Amos’
most beautiful albums musical
ly speaking, with harpsichord
backing her on more than half
the tracks, her infamous song
writing is absent.
Even worse, Amos’ ethereal
Amos
voice often lacks the
intensity she showed
in the past.
The result is that
Boys for Pele is almo;
a waste of an album,
because when Amos'
songwriting skills at
beautiful voice are
taken away, little is
left to fall back on.
There are some redeeming
moments. The album’s first ail
gle, “Caught a Lite Sneeze,” a
witty little broken-heartedsoi
with a small reference to Nine
Inch Nails (“dreamed a little
dream / made my own pretty
hate machine”).
This song represents every
thing that is wonderful about
Tori Amos, and everything that
is missing on most of the other
tracks on this album.
A particularly low point
the album is "In the Springtime
of His Voodoo,” a jazzy song
that makes about as much
sense as its title. Of course,
Amos is known for being a bit
eccentric, but she crosses the
line here.
Even worse, her voice is par
ticularly weak on this song,an
element that could be blamed
on poor production by Amos,
rather than poor singing.
And when both Amos’voice
and songwriting skills are tak
en away, little is left to relyon.
The artwork for this album,
which includes Amos in hole-
caustal and/ or backwoods,red
neck scenes in almost every
photo, suggests that Amos in
tended for this to be a disturb
ing album. She couldn’thave
realized how accurate that
thought would be.
But rather than being a
ground-breaking, thought-pro
voking portrait of Amos’growth
as a musician, Boys for Peleli
an unfortunate step back for
this talented singer.
Tori, you can do much better
than this.
Here’s hoping that Boys for
Pele will just be a momentary
lapse in Amos’ career, rather
than a sign of things to come.
Boys for Pele may sound nkf
on the surface, but there’s Uttl
beyond the surface to look to.
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