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Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)

Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 1998

IS SHE A high-boil Kate Bush rip-off or a true renegade – a singer-pianist unafraid to cavort with fairies and howl with wolves? Sometimes Amos is simply both, someone capable of terrific, swooping highs and ungodly, muck-wallowing lows, a woman whose fever either mesmerizes or embarrasses. Before Fiona, there was Tori Amos: strong, passionate, womanly and weird.

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