Ocean to Ocean
| Tori Amos
Ocean to Ocean
Ocean to Ocean is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on October 29, 2021. A vinyl release will follow on January 28, 2022. Amos will support the album with a UK and Europe tour in February and March 2022. -Wikipedia
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The Quietus
This is a gauzy and sometimes deceptively accessible album about falling all the way to the bottom and wondering if there’s any way back.
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Pitchfork
On her 16th album, begun early this year as the UK entered its third lockdown, the Cornwall-based singer-songwriter grapples with personal loss, the cruelty of the world, and the will to keep going.
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Slant Magazine
With Ocean to Ocean, it seems as if Amos has all but given up on pushing the limits of her instrument. Which would be more forgivable if the songs themselves didn’t play it quite so safely.
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Glide Magazine
On Ocean to Ocean, Tori Amos captures the magic of what made her great thirty years ago, while offering new perspectives and approaches, reaffirming her as one of music’s most inventive, thought-provoking artists.
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PopMatters
Tori Amos’ Ocean to Ocean is a cohesive collection of songs that expertly articulates and finds meaning in the deepest recesses of despair.
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Spill Magazine
As good as her last few albums have been, here she has outdone herself. In looking within and expressing her pain, she has made Ocean To Ocean engaging, beautiful, and moving. At this point in her career, she has nothing to prove, but it just may be time to rediscover the genius of Tori Amos.
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The Line of Best Fit
Ocean to Ocean continues Tori Amos’ incredible songwriting talent.
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XS Noize
it’s still damn good, because it’s Tori Amos, and Tori Amos is damn good, and we should be appreciative that she is still around and making music because her music is damn good.
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Renowned for Sound
Despite the assortment of stylings heard within Tori Amos’ latest album Ocean to Ocean, the listening experience she takes you on stays on one, albeit meandering, path and is quite clearly and distinctly the work of an artist so many have come to appreciate and admire over the years. As such, this new album will therefore harvest love and respect by any music fan partial to this one-of-a-kind artist.
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Sputnik Music
If you’ve missed out on the last few Tori Amos records and need to get reacquainted with her work, Ocean to Ocean will catch you up to speed very nicely.
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The Irish Times
Introspective gems born in lockdown.
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Hotpress
A more than welcome career highlight.
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25 Years Later Site
y giving us Ocean to Ocean, Amos not only gifted us with a very beautiful album (which I recommend listening to very, very loudly), she also proved that we, too, can climb out of the mud. We can shed our tears, wake our limbs, pull ourselves out of lockdown paralysis, and begin to live again.
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Medium
Tori Amos’s music has always been a deeply personal affair. Her craft as a songwriter often reaches places within the human psyche that few others would dare dive deep enough to reach. In this new record, fans can expect the same honesty and vulnerability from the vibrant, flame-haired singer. Her 16th studio album Ocean To Ocean is a frank and autobiographical journey of loss and darkness, but also of the ever present glimmer of hope that shines ahead — when one dares to search for it.
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The Arts Desk
The musical subtleties and nuances begin to permeate your consciousness, like a burst of flavour at a wine-tasting.
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musicOMH
Like most of Tori Amos’ recent output, Ocean To Ocean very much sits in a niche of its own. The days of Silent All These Years or songs about Cornflake Girls are long gone – but Ocean To Ocean is a moving, poignant and inspiring document of a journey most of us have had to take over the past 18 months.
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Stereoboard
What truly renders this album a seductive delight, though, is that it’s the most melodically instant record Amos has made in a long time. Every track could be a single, and yet that approach never feels calculated. For any songwriter looking to establish their own unique voice, while striving to craft meaningful music that touches the broadest possible audience without sacrificing their authenticity, ‘Ocean to Ocean’ is nothing short of a masterclass.
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AllMusic
Ocean to Ocean is a late-era standout for Amos, who reaches through the dark cloud of collective grief to be that supportive presence for listeners, healing with familiar touches and a timely message.
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Buzz Magazine
Ocean to Ocean is as fresh as the morning sea spray.
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Tinnitist
Working in isolation and returning to the introspection of her early work, the singer-songwriter creates a powerful pandemic album that examines loss and coping.
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
Ocean To Ocean is the feminine heart and soul holding the fragile mind of masculinity and showing another way to view distance, to witness time, and creating a bond that traverse such unthought miles; an album of exquisite taste and flavour, and one that sits proudly in the pantheon of work by the maestro.
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Stack
Musically, she introduces her songs with piano, pan flutes, electric guitar and orchestration, embellishing the sense of mystery that accompanies her lyrics. Vocally, she’s never sounded better.
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My Gay Opinion
Of course, it wouldn’t be a Tori album without the tantalizingly tickled piano keys, topical lyrics weaved among Tori’s quirky mental-musings, and her flirty-fairy vocals with a hint of English class. In my gay opinion, it’s so good to have old-school, alt-pop princess Tori back on Ocean To Ocean. I’ve misssed the Tori who has been silent all these years.
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