Forever the showcase for hot up-and-coming talent, SXSW hosted a special performance by Tori Amos this year. The unforgettable M.I.L.F. took the opportunity to debut three songs from her forthcoming Abnormally Attracted To Sin, Tori’s tenth studio album. For this record she’s shelved the schizophrenia in favor of tunes about mother/son pot-smoking negotiations and greetings from Britain. There’s no drastic reinvention afoot in lead single “Welcome To England,” and that is not a bad thing: paired with typically killer beats from drum hero Matt Chamberlain, Tori hits an edgy, percussive groove through the verses and turns in a surprisingly vibrant track for such an aged vet. The hook turns to too-smoothed adult-contempo-pop, but hey, strong first single. And you’d take Tori slinking along gold-wrought fences over the nonsense limo-driver scrum at Heathrow as a welcome to England any day.
Abnormally Attracted to Sin is out 5/19 with distribution by Universal Republic. Sticking tight to the “England” theme, Tori’s announced a single album-preview show at London’s Savoy Theatre on 4/27, titled “Acoustically Attracted To Sin.” Buy tickets here. Don’t talk during it or she’ll kick you the fuck out.
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She always sings like such a smart ass….and somehow makes you feel like you’ll never understand…..I love her. I want to go swimming with her in a pool of melted butterscotch.
Surprised but pleased to see at least ONE major indie blog covering Tori…
and to be honest I don’t love this song; it IS a little too MOR for me, but I’d love to hear more reintroduction of the electronics like at the start.
Sponsored by the London Tourist Board?
I still love her sonically… but someone once pointed out to me that she writes the same song over and over… now I can’t listen to anything after Choirgirl Hotel…
not loving this video at all, hope the ‘visualettes’ that come with the new album are better. Do like the track though, akin to a sorta fairytale, but was hoping the new album would invoke the pele/choir girl era. oh well, it’ll do.
The Second-hottest red-head… the first being Neko Case of course.
Love Tori, but I agree with some of the comments. Honestly, most songs have the same ring to it. This is much like several of the tracks of yesteryear. I don’t feel the urge to buy any more of her tunes. I have a wonderful body of work to enjoy; no need to duplicate space in my library.
All of her songs sound the same to mea, and this one is no exception, unfortunately. I wish she could come up with different tunes and she could really have something going for her!
I’ve loved her for a long time, since Little earthquakes, but I’ve started to be bored by her voice and the-so-same-sound since Venus’ time and from then on. Well, it’s a shame to me, I don’t like this new song…. is it new, ah, or a scrap?
It seems to me like she had lost the magic touch, the brightness- you can call it HER uniqueness – she had at Pink’s, or Pele’s era, thought the darkest shape you can find in them.
I love the new song of Toris’…Welcome To England. Yes it does sound like some of her other songs BUT shes so amazing that more of her is absolutely fine with me. When I first heard the song it sent shivers up my spine. Too many artists experiment and come out with good stuff in the beginning and then change and you’re like…what happened to that original sound I loved so much!!! Welcome To England had me singing and wrapping myself up in the whole thing. I wonder if shes a distant cousin of Kate Bush? for those too young to know who Kate Bush is….if you like Tori you will like Kate.