Music Review

Scarlet's Walk (2002)

Tori Amos

Reviewed by Ken Tucker | Nov 01, 2002

Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW

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EW's GRADE

D-

Details Release Date: Oct 29, 2002; Lead Performance: Tori Amos

$LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT Wander woman Amos\' \'\'Walk\'\' can\'t go the distance | Tori Amos$

Image credit: Tori Amos: Kurt Markus

LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT Wander woman Amos' ''Walk'' can't go the distance

Tori Amos has always flirted with dippiness, sometimes quite seductively, but with Scarlet's Walk, a grandiloquent ''sonic novel,'' as her label bills it, she achieves full-blown looniness. A song cycle about a woman traversing America, ''Walk'' conflates Native American oppression, anti-homophobia, the 9/11 attacks, and motherhood with appalling hubris. The melodies meander pretty unforgivably too. Buy it and be directed to a website that maps out Scarlet's death-defying journey and Tori's life-affirming tour-date schedule. Cumulative effect? Soul-depleting.

Originally posted Oct 28, 2002 Published in issue #680 Nov 01, 2002 Order article reprints

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