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This review of
Scarlet's Walk was posted to Amazon.com
in late October 2002. Thanks to Alisha Parker,
LipGlossThing, and Peter Zimmerman.
Amazon.com
From the confusion
and chaos that marked one of the most harrowing episodes in American
history comes Tori Amos's masterwork. Scarlet's Walk, the follow-up
to her critically acclaimed covers LP, Strange Little Girls, was
written on a cross-country road trip shortly after the terrorist
attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. Over the course of
3,000 miles and 18 tracks, the crimson-haired singer encounters
rogue lovers ("A Sorta Fairytale"), reformed porn stars
("Amber Waves"), and an entire cast of characters who
embody the spirit of a country suddenly searching for an identity.
The album serves as both an ambitious travelogue and as a graceful
rejoinder to the bitterness and frustration that inspired it, with
Amos wading through swells of sadness ("I Can't See New
York"), anger ("Don't Make Me Come to Vegas"), and
insecurity ("Your Cloud") with velvety grace. --Aidin
Vaziri
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