Strange Little Girls (2009)

TORI'S WIGS For ''Strange Little Girls,'' Amos assumes the personalities of the characters of which she sings

On Strange Little Girls, the famously eccentric chanteuse not only reimagines -- from a woman's point of view -- songs by such disparate male acts as the Boomtown Rats and Slayer, but poses Cindy Sherman-style in the CD artwork as the characters she's conjured. The conceptual conceit might be lost on fans who can't figure out what inspired Amos to appear, for instance, as a Goth chick for 10cc's ''I'm Not in Love.'' Still, ''Girls'' is largely a success, even if most cuts sound traditionally Tori. She lays bare the pathos of Eminem's '''97 Bonnie and Clyde'' and the stark gravity of Depeche Mode's ''Enjoy the Silence.'' Part off-the-rails feminist art project, part sheer genius.