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TORI TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ON OCTOBER 15TH

The new album titled Scarlets Walk promises to be very interesting indeed


Tori Amos is to release an album of covers as her next project, reinterpreting "male" songs from a female perspective. Strange Little Girls, which will be issued on 18 September, will feature new versions of songs by Eminem, Depeche Mode, Neil Young, The Beatles and, er, Slayer. "I've always found it fascinating how men say things and women hear them," Amos says. "Each woman [in each song] approached me and said, I have a point of view on this song, that you may want to know, that may change how you hear its meaning." "Words can wound and words can heal and both are included on the album," she continues. "I've heard a lot of people say, They're only words; what is everybody going on about? But words are powerful; words are like guns We as writers cannot separate ourselves from what we create. All of these songs were created by powerful wordsmiths, whether you agree with them or not."  One of the wordsmiths, Eminem, disturbed Amos when she heard the track 97’ Bonnie & Clyde. "When I first heard the song, the scariest thing to me was the realisation that people are getting into the music and grooving along to a song about a man who is butchering his wife. So half the world is dancing to this, oblivious, with blood on their sneakers. But when you kill your wife, you don't get to control whom she becomes friends with when she's dead. She had to have a voice."  To complete the concept, Amos has commissioned photographer Thomas Schenk to produce portraits of Amos as each of the characters portrayed in the songs. She is also expected to stage a solo tour in the autumn to support the album.

The full track listing is:
New Age (originally by The Velvet Underground)
97' Bonnie & Clyde (Eminem)
Strange Little Girl (The Stranglers)
Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole And The Commotions)
I'm Not in Love (10cc)
Time (Tom Waits)
Heart Of Gold (Neil Young)
I Don't Like Mondays (The Boomtown Rats)
Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Beatles)
Raining Blood (Slayer)
Real Men (Joe Jackson)

I just recently went to the concert in Glasgow on the 5th of December and can I say just how bloody fantastic it was. hope to have some pictures from it soon ( if they turn out)