Night Of Hunters

A lot of artists use the well-worn tactic of escaping a stylistic rut by looking back. On Night Of Hunters, Tori Amos looks back 400 years. Recorded for renowned classical label Deutsche Grammophon, Hunters comes after a decade where Amos was mired in adult contemporary gunk and self-parody. It’s a sprawling…

Check out our album review of Artist's Night of Hunters on Rolling Stone.com.

Tori Amos has attempted conceptual recordings as far back as Boys for Pele in 1996.

Arranged for piano, brass, strings and woodwind, Tori Amos's 12th album is nothing if not ambitious, writes <strong>Ally Carnwath </strong>

The more direct songs on Tori Amos's 'Night of Hunters' transcend the trappings of the album’s rigid construct. Read our review.

What's Tori Amos come up with this time? A classical song cycle? <strong>Alex Macpherson</strong> sucks it and sees

Tori Amos - Night of Hunters review: A headfirst lunge toward classical music inspires Tori to her best effort since Choirgirl.

It’s been a while since Tori Amos did something as straightforward as writing a bunch of songs, recording them, and then releasing them as a CD. Her releases over the past decade or so have been, for instance, “themed” into horticultural compartments (The Beekeeper), or 12 cover versions of songs originally written by men but sung by Amos from the perspectives of 12 different female personae (Strange Little Girls).