Night Of Hunters

A.V. Club B Hunters is actually her most enjoyable album in years.

Evening Standard 4/5 These graceful, imaginative, all-acoustic songs threaten to give classical crossover a good name. Amos, meanwhile, deserves a reappraisal.

Rolling Stone 2.5/5 There are pretty moments: the clarinet-piano duet “Seven Sisters,” the tag-team vocals on “The Chase,” the lush closer, “Carry.” But often it feels like musical theater in need of a stage production.

All Music 4/5 While her narrative can be frustratingly complex and her lyrics obscure, the work ultimately succeeds because she restrains herself from all excesses and employs her finest vocal and playing skills; the latter are, at this juncture, formidable.

The Skinny 4/5 Night of Hunters marks a return to the stark and candid nature of Under The Pink, yet Amos retains her latter-day love of narrative concepts and confidently intertwines the two disciplines, delivering her strongest album in over a decade.

The Observer 3/5 Arranged for piano, brass, strings and woodwind, and billed by the singer as "an ongoing, modern love story", it plays out like an intermittently absorbing, if overly demanding, night at the theatre.

Slant 3/5 Night of Hunters is a beautiful, smart record, but it’s also, by design, an obtuse and insular album by an artist who already skews pretty far in those directions.

Pop Matters 6/10 This predominantly slow, somber album ultimately overstays its welcome.

The Guardian 3/5 The album's narrative – Celtic whimsy meets marriage counselling – is overthought, often dragging Amos's lyrics into cringeworthy territory, and the bulk of it is given over to resolution rather than build-up.

Hot Press 6.0/10 You admire her determination not to dance to anyone else’s reel. But even her most ardent fans may find Night Of Hunters a musical step too far.