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Thanks to Erin
Eber, Jackie Smith, Tyler Mays and tjavery
for sending me this review, which is really negative. It appears in
the November 1, 2002 issue of Entertainment Weekly. (#680 with
Avril Lavigne on the cover.)
Tori Amos
- Scarlet's Walk (epic)
Amos has always
flirted with dippiness, sometimes quite seductively, but with this
graniloquent "sonic novel," as her label bills it, she
achieves full-blown looniness. A song cycle about a woman
transversing America, Walk conflates Native American oppression,
anti-homophobia, the 9/11 attacks, and motherhood with appalling
hubris. The melodies meander pretty unforgivably too. Buy it and be
directed to a website that maps out Scarlet's death-defying journey
and Tori's life-affirming tour-date schedule. Cumulative effect? Soul-depleting.
D - Grade given
to the album :(
By Ken Tucker
On page 70, with the
review, there's a picture of tori with a line underneath that says,
" Leave Home Without It. Wander woman Amos' Walk can't go the
distance."
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