Abnormally Attracted to Sin (2009)

What would Jesus do? As Tori Amos sees it, probably something dirty. Exploring themes of religious and carnal power on Abnormally Attracted to Sin, she's heavy-breathing about blood and wine and saints and getting down on her knees (for nonsaintly reasons), likely setting the librarians in some university's human-sexuality archives all atwitter. Sometimes her brains get a little too big for her Bible: On ''Mary Jane,'' she fails to find a rhyme for ''tetrahydrocannabinol pure isomer dronabinol.'' But when she's banging on her piano over layers of lush electronics, she's got the rapture part down. B

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