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90Trading obscure metaphors for assertive personae, Amos sings with a remarkably forceful focus. [Jun 2007, p.92]
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"ADP" is often fun but sometimes overwrought, and non-fans may find it too much.
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80Texturally, it's a middle ground between her searing early album Under the Pink and the sun-dappled 2005 The Beekeeper. [Jun 2007, p.105]
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80Some of her best work in years is here... There's far too much, though; cut to 10 tracks it would have been her one of her most significant records.
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80If American Doll Posse sees her remain an acquired taste, those who have already been converted are in for a treat.
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A message to lapsed Tori Amos fans: come back. You won't be bored.
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80Grand conceit aside, "American Doll Posse" is a great art-pop album.
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80If American Doll Posse would have been edited into a shorter, more concise record, it could have been Amos's best. Instead, it fits nicely alongside her best work, but is a little bit too bogged down with its sometimes preachy, non-descript politics and too many of the usual suspects in the mix.
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80Imagine an amalgam of The White Album, The Kick Inside and Professor Longhair, all conceived as an off-Broadway extravaganza directed by Julie Taymor.
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Her musical vision and production skills are almost astonishing in places. [But] American Doll Posse is a work that has its problems due to its sprawling nature.
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If still too uneven and entirely too overstuffed to rank among her most essential albums, American Doll Posse is certainly Amos's most ambitious record, both for the breadth of its sound and for the scope of its driving concept.
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60Here's a concept Tori: less is more. [Jun 2007, p.108]
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60American Doll Posse sounds like a return to more conventional songwriting form. [Jun 2007, p.87]
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In typical Tori fashion, there's way too much conceptual malarkey surrounding the songs, but if you can ignore her fake posse, you'll find this is Amos' best album in many years.
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60Despite it being more rock-oriented than 2005's "The Beekeeper," this album isn't much of a sonic progression, and it takes a while for "Posse" to find its voice. [5 May 2007]
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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.
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40Ambitious, high-concept albums are one thing, but Posse's just a boring mess.
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The touches of old Tori ("Girl Disappearing," "Body and Soul") are fairly solid, but most often she gets lost in her mental "posse."
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Adding a set of young female characters to this drab mix only accentuates that a concept is needed to bolster the actual music.
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JohnR9Not as good as Scarlet's Walk but much better than the Beekeeper. You won't like it on first listen, which is a good thing.