Title: Abnormally Attracted to Sin
Artiste: Tori Amos
Genre: Pop
Familiarity: I've heard the odd song. Always felt she was a little Kate Bush-lite
Recommended by: MicShazam
Expectations: Really not sure. Hope this album can change the view I hold of her as outlined above. Interesting to be getting the very first of MicShazam's recs...
1. Give: Very dark, ominous start. The Bush comparisons are very hard to ignore even from the off though. Sort of sounds a little 90s Marillion too. Slow, menacing, broody.
2. Welcome to England: Slightly more uptempo, bright piano that also turns dark at times.
3. Strong black vine: Like the orchestral opening, again quite dark and unsettling.
4. Flavor: Very minimal, ticking percussion, a slow song with creeping menace in it.
5. Not dying today: First real uptempo song, reminds me of the more exuberant moments of Peter Gabriel. Kind of tribal drums
6. Maybe California: Very moving ballad, lovely orchestral work and beautiful piano. It's just too much like a Kate Bush song though, and if I heard this outside of the album I would think it was her.
7. Curtain call: Song's okay, nice piano line, but somehow this one isn't engaging me at all.
8. Fire to your pain: More uptempo this time, with some peppy keys but I'm beginning to care less.
9. Police me: Ok just bored now.
10. That guy: This has at least something interesting about it. Mediterranean feel with some
pizzicato strings and a lush keyboard sound. Sounds like it might have been used in a movie, though it probably wasn't.
11. Abnormally attracted to sin: And I'm back to not caring
12. 500 miles: There are too many tracks on this...
13. Mary Jane: This is a lovely piano piece, but again, the K word...
14. Starling: ... for an album that ...
15. Fast horse:...sucks so hard
16. Ophelia:Ok this is lovely. It's just that there are only a few nuggets in among all the rest of these turds. Gorgeous rolling piano and a nice vocal. I feel it sounds quite like The Eurythmics' “Julia”, but I'm pretty sure that's just me.
17. Lady in blue: This one is good as well, a very decent closer; broody and a bit mysterious. Actually no it's ****ing excellent, and ends the album strongly particularly with that crazy guitar solo. But too little too late I fear.
End result: Overall, it's been a long time since I've been so bored with an album. Deadmau5 and The Microphones I hated, but with this I was just praying for it to end. And
seventeen tracks! Look, if I want to hear a Kate Bush album I'll listen to
Lionheart or
The Red Shoes. This doesn't even come close. I don't know; I was disappointed with YD's album and now this. Is a new worrying trend developing? Save me , Batty!
So, Love or Hate? It's a very solid
Meh for this.