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Sep 7, 2017What makes Native Invader a work of genius--a kind of Great American novel, perhaps--is that it seamlessly blends the personal, political, natural and cosmic into the same story.
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Sep 11, 2017Native Invader isn’t as confrontational as Amos’ early work, and as a result, once or twice the album takes a brief detour into coffeeshop cliché. But even the sillier lyrical content is elevated by Amos’ talent for arrangement and distinctive snippets of melody.
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Sep 7, 2017The strength of this album, and the 14 that precede it, is the immense healing and soothing found in the sheer beauty of Amos’ vocal delivery.
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Q MagazineSep 27, 2017Her marriage of musical gentleness and raw despair takes her to a whole new level. [Nov 2017, p.104]
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Sep 8, 2017It adds up to one of the most purposeful full-length statements in her quarter-century career.
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Sep 7, 2017Amos may never again sound the way she did in the ‘90s, nor should she feel the need to. She confidently wields her status as a veteran rock performer, dispensing wisdom and evoking complex, unspeakable emotions with inimitable skill.
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Sep 6, 2017Native Invader stands tall with its own vital voice and energy, alluding to beloved touchstones from throughout Amos' oeuvre while remaining fully of its time.
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Sep 5, 2017Like the best of Amos’ work over the past 20 years, what makes Native Invader exceptional is its complexity: songs are laid out like puzzles, ready for the subjectivity of the listener, with no obvious interpretations.
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Sep 13, 2017The album is spacious and enveloping even as it warns of horrors down the line.
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Sep 8, 2017Native Invader is not one of Tori’s sexier albums, nor is it as playful as she’s demonstrated herself capable of being. But it’s strong and unwavering in its commitment to being muse-driven and unafraid.
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Sep 18, 2017As ever with Amos’ more recent albums, it’s a bit overlong and some songs, especially in the album’s mid-section, float by without ever making much of an impression. ... Yet when Tori is on form, she still sounds as vital and exciting as she did 25 years ago.
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Sep 7, 2017Yes, Native Invader is an effectual statement by an artist who has built her career on making them, but at times it feels a little restrained in its tone compared to some of her most memorable work.
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Sep 14, 2017Native Invader is a step back from Unrepentant Geraldines, but still boasts enough quality to suggest that she has another stellar album in her.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 128 out of 139
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Mixed: 6 out of 139
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Negative: 5 out of 139
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