Album Reviews: Tori Amos
Amos frames Trump and his allies as dragons on her 18th album, linking the critique to 17 songs and a darker, more literal political tone.
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Album reviews: Tori Amos
Tori Amos’s dystopian fantasy album sees her protagonist pursued across the US by the forces of evil before coming to terms with her destiny as a vanquishing dragon. Inevitably, writes Fiona Shepherd, there is catharsis and cleansing en route
On In Times of Dragons, her 18th album recorded in her Cornish homeland, Tori Amos delivers a mystical tale of escape and rebirth. The protagonist, half-dragon, half-woman, flees a Lizard Demon husband with the help of a "Gay Witch From Brooklyn" and a "High Priestess"—accompanied by the […] This article, "Tori Amos delivers a mystical tale of escape and dragons on In Times of Dragons," first appeared on Rolling Stone.
Tori Amos - In Times of Dragons (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK
Photo: Kasia Wozniak Tori Amos understands the theatre of survival. Her 18th album, ‘In Times of Dragons’ once again folds autobiography into allegory, wandering a mythic America where the lizard elite breathe fire over democracy’s dying embers. It’s a heavy conceit but a familiar one: Amos dramatises her inner life through strange roles, half‑witch, half‑oracle, always sitting at the piano as both witness and combatant.
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