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100Uncommonly rich and unfashionably gynocentric, Scarlet's Walk makes the personal universal, using the stories of women lost, left and unseen to chart a map of the American psyche. [#11, p.124]
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90As ambitious as anything in recent pop music memory.... One of the most invigorating and arresting works of her career.
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90As usual, her melodies stubbornly refuse to turn into hooks, preferring to twirl into new territory. But her approach suits the material, which flows like the colors on a weather map, from Los Angeles to Nevada, from New York to Virginia, gathering thunder along the way. [Nov 2002]
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90The album serves as both an ambitious travelogue and as a graceful rejoinder to the bitterness and frustration that inspired it, with Amos wading through swells of sadness ("I Can't See New York"), anger ("Don't Make Me Come to Vegas"), and insecurity ("Your Cloud") with velvety grace.
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A magnificent, epic take on American history and mythology.
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Scarlet's Walk not only evinces Amos' musical maturation, it's also the singer's most ambitious lyrical work.
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80One of Amos' most deeply felt, spiritually astute and finest albums. [Dec 2002, p.138]
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It marks a return to the sound and feel of Under the Pink and is her best album since then.
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The new album's themes show that Amos is energized with stories to tell once again - making Scarlet's Walk at once ambitious and also one of her most moving collections yet. [Nov 2002]
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80Similar to the artist's Under the Pink in tone and continuity, Scarlet demands repeated spins to fully appreciate its chapters' musical and lyrical complexities.
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70Musically, the tunes are more cohesive this time around, with more of a "band" feel then simply people accompanying Amos and her Bosendorfer.
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Yes, it's a concept album, but it's not crap. Actually, Scarlet's Walk is very suitable for an artist with Amos' capacity for spewing drama from her intense and highly articulated words.
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Amid all the elegantly sweeping, minor-key arrangements are the usual aggravating moments.
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This is where Scarlet's Walk falters: Its concept is unfathomable.
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67Walk isn't groundbreaking as much as typical Tori Amos--a dramatic menagerie of atmospheric tracks filled with manic piano, morose characters and so many literary allusions you'll need CliffsNotes to figure 'em out.
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60The music here only rarely matches up. [Nov 2002, p.96]
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There's an army of voices inside Tori Amos, and the girl knows how to use them.
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60Ultimately, the moments of bare beauty on such tracks as "Your Cloud" and "Crazy" set Amos apart as a true original. [Dec 2002]
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60Her message, so powerful when unadorned, tends to get diluted by the awkward arrangements that accompany it.
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60While her writing is often flattened by the ungainly toil of navvying away for the Big Idea, the flame of toriamosness burns through at times. [Nov 2002, p.114]
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Cumulative effect? Soul-depleting. [1 Nov 2002, p.70]
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