Hard work, but this is an album which reveals rewards.
This album is hard work. Night of Hunters is billed as a "21st century song cycle inspired by select classical pieces spanning the last 400 years". "The protagonist", as Tori Amos describes the character she plays here, is "a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship". During the course of a single eventful night, she experiences "an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself" – apparently "allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter".
Phew indeed! That Amos recently furnished her personal website with a 1,300-word track-by-track explanation is telling. As is the fact she's recruited her 10-year-old daughter to play a shape-shifting character called Anabelle who appears before Amos – sorry, "the protagonist" – as both a fox and a goose.
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Bron: BBC Music