Re. Scarlet's Walk - the tone, in general, feels like she's happier, like she's reached some sort of peace with herself. The album is like a retrospective of her life, I think - from an older and wiser point of view - rather than directly diaristic, which I think most of her albums have tended to be. Disclaimer: I haven't read all the lyrics. But, as always, Tori Amos can make me cry like no one else.
Musically, it harkens back to her earlier albums in some ways, without re-treading ground - it's a lot less dark than 'To Venus and Back', and less...frenetic than 'From the Choirgirl Hotel'.
If you buy the limited edition, you get all sorts of cool extras - a map of Tori-land, some stickers, a little pink plastic lizard, a little glossy booklet of polaroid-style photos of the woman herself. And a CD-Rom/DVD thingy, that I haven't tried yet, but which opens up 'Scarlet's Web'.
Rothkoid - I'll burn you a copy if you like, though? |
