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Fact #176399

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Tori Amos releases her tenth studio album, Abnormally Attracted To Sin, on Island Records.

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It speaks volumes that the DVD promos included with the deluxe version of this release are being touted as ‘visualettes’. The sensitive rock fan's milf clearly hasn’t lost her flair for the pretentious and, regrettably, that’s true of the music as well. Toriphiles will be delighted to find a generous 76 minutes of songstuff here but the less committed might never get past the veritable encyclopaedia of tortured vocal affectations that blight the stodgy opening track, Give. The much simpler, jazz-blues inflected That Guy demonstrates how good she can be when she focuses, but the piano ballad Maybe California feels too much like Tori by the numbers, and the world really doesn’t need another song about dope called Mary Jane. Amos is clearly still smart and musically gifted but albums like this will surely consign her forever to the bin marked Kate Bush lite.
Johnny Black (review originally appeared in Mojo, 2009)