When it comes to Tori Amos’ “Under the Pink,” forget “Cornflake Girl.” Try “Pretty Good Year,” a honey-voiced wist-fest filled with characteristically oblique metaphor.
It’s like I don’t know what she’s talking about, but I do.
Maybe Tori Amos’ warm, octave-straddling voice and star-spangled fingers are filling in the banks.
“Pretty Good Year” is an exercise in dynamics, starting off quiet as a church mouse and climaxing in a cathartic confrontation with the void.
In this key passage, Tori Amos traverses so many notes and stretches out so many words by romancing their vowels that it gives car-singers a run for their money. Her vocal runs are more externalized angst than church choir harmony.
I’ve always been a fan of B-side bangers.
–Sarah Torribio
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