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ALL DOLLED UP Amos successfully glams up on her ninth album, but her high-concept comes off a little raggedy
Blaise Reutersward

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Release Date: May 01, 2007; Lead Performance: Tori Amos; Genre: Rock
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By Chris Willman
Chris Willman
Chris Willman is a senior music writer for Entertainment Weekly

American Doll Posse, Tori Amos' ninth album, is sung from the POV of five characters, each represented in the booklet by various costumes and wigs, à la 2001's Strange Little Girls. Good luck figuring out who's who, since ''Isabel,'' ''Clyde,'' ''Pip,'' ''Santa,'' and ''Tori'' mostly seem to share their creator's sassy, antipatriarchal, divine-feminist sensibility...but they'll all be getting their own blogs, so we can sort that out later. Too bad Posse is a conceptual wreck, because it benefits from some of the beefiest, most borderline-glam-rock moments Amos has put on record.


Posted Apr 16, 2007
 

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