Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
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Artist: Tori AmosEdition: Music CD
Published: 2000
CD Release Date: 1998-05-05
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Spark
- Cruel
- Black-Dove (January)
- Raspberry Swirl
- Jackie's Strength
- Iieee
- Liquid Diamonds
- She's Your Cocaine
- Northern Lad
- Hotel
- Playboy Mommy
- Pandora's Aquarium
Free Music Notes for From the Choirgirl Hotel
Free Music Review: A huge misstep
Hit: 2 Stars
Before you start burning with anger, understand that I am, first and foremost, a Tori fan. I am not, however, a Toriphile who believes that the beloved artist can do no wrong. "From the Choirgirl Hotel" is such a weak record that it can be considered the beginning of Tori's creative death. My main problem with the record is that it does not manage to win the listener's interest often enough and it's short on strong, fully formed material. Tori's confessions are buried in all the sound textures and bad, cheesy beats ruin an already weak record. Her once powerful voice is drowning in most of the songs. "Spark" is decent enough, taking advantage of the new production style Tori adopted in 1997. The album continues with "Cruel" which thumps and struts around with not much to show. Things get worse in "Black Dove (January)" which only has one attractive part (the lovely sung "by the woods" lyric).
"Raspberry Swirl" is the only song where experimenting with dance beats pays off. The song can be considered a highlight, and followed by two great songs, makes for a weakly beating heart of the album. "Swirl" sounds like a mess, but at least it's a beautiful one. Things get clearer on "Jackie's Strength", the only of the three sole piano pieces that sounds good. The record continues strong with "I I E E E", a track that as "Spark" and "Raspberry Swirl" benefits from artificial beats. The problem with these songs is that you can barely hear Tori's instrument of choice--piano is completely subordinated. She tries to clear things up in "Liquid Diamonds", but the song fails to capture listener's interest. Half of the material sounds distasteful. "She's Your Cocaine" starts out as a promising track, but soon proves to be lacking melodic substance. And what the hell is she doing at the end of the song? It sounds like she's having obnoxious sex.
"Northern Lad" and "Pandora's Aquarium" is the kind of stuff Amos creates on a daily basis, but she didn't work enough on these songs and hardly put any emotions in them. There's no idiosyncrasy of "Little Earthquakes", no feminine touch of "Under the Pink", no harrowing piano playing of "Boys for Pele". This was obviously a transitional record for Amos, but she went from an insanely captivating woman to a woman who made a really bad choice. You'd expect from a level of personal tragedy she lived through that she would make a great record, but sadly, she simply used music as a safety net this time around. After the break up with Eric Rosse, she made an astonishing piece of work. This time, it appears as if she chose to hide in her music, doubting her womanhood and creativity. The result is an overproduced record that ranks among her worst. None of the things that made her early records so stunning can be found here.
From the Choirgirl Hotel Poster
For Tori Amos, sex can be a weapon, a spiritual offering, or an act of protest. It's certainly been the singer-pianist's big subject since her 1989 debut Little Earthquakes. But while her earliest compositions tried to punch every emotional hot button at once and came off sounding turgid and overblown, her new album packs a greater punch by toning down mock-symphonic excess in favor of stark, haunting tracks that contain veiled mysteries. Love cuts both ways on Choirgirl. Songs such as "She's Your Cocaine" and "Cruel" view relationships as vicious power plays, while the protagonists in "Playboy Mommy" and "Northern Lad" desperately seek salvation via emotional connection. Hypnotic, affecting, and frequently gorgeous, From the Choirgirl Hotel is Amos's most accomplished album to date. --Marc WeingartenAlternative Rock Music CDs
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