Scarlet's Walk
| Tori Amos
Scarlet's Walk
Scarlet's Walk is the seventh studio album released by Tori Amos . The 18-track concept album details the cross-country travels of Scarlet, a character loosely based on Amos, as well as the concept of America post-September 11, 2001. The album was the first released by Amos on Epic Records after her split with former label Atlantic Records. After a period of trouble with her last label, Amos proved her fan base was still with her when the album debuted at number 7 in the US, selling 107,000 copies in its first week, and reaching RIAA Gold status about a month after its release.-Wikipedia
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Babyblaue-Seiten
Conclusion: Unfortunately, an outstanding song for a CD with 18 tracks and almost 75 minutes of playing time is a bit little. Because unfortunately "I can't see .." played 18 times in a row is still more exciting than listening to the record completely.
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Musicfolio
As it is now, it is just too long and failed to hold my attention for the whole album."
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Adrian Denning Album Reviews
As it is, 'Scarlet's Walk' is still more than impressive and with enough good songs and then great songs to be recommended to Tori fans everywhere.
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Liverpool Sound and Viison
Tori Amos, Scarlett’s Walk. 10th Anniversary Retrospective. One of the three great albums produced by Tori Amos and her various musicians in a very long career, astonishing, critical and perhaps one of the great introspectives of American life post 2001.
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laut.de
A mature album for long stretches.
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Vinyl Me, Please
Marking a new phase of her career, it’s a noticeably more relaxed listen compared to her past work, but one that rewards the audience with repeat spins. The fire of old had been replaced with a sense of nostalgia and over time Scarlet’s journey becomes your own.
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W.L. Swarts Reviews The Universe
I Might Not Understand Half The Lyrics, But Scarlet’s Walk Is Still A Perfect Album!
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
So there's nothing new, which is okay with me, but her singing is strangely passionless and her images unevocative, so though the songs are pretty they don't feel like they matter. And the self-important "I'm Writing About AMERICA" theme doesn't score points with me either . . . . (DBW)
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Furia - Glenn McDonald
Look, there's no point in me pretending I don't think this is the best album ever. I already said that from the choirgirl hotel was the best album of the Nineties, and that listening to Tori play live is the most transcendent musical thing I've ever experienced, but this album is greater than either of those.
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MetroWeekly
The album clocks in at over 74 minutes and has 18 tracks – it’s a long journey, for sure, but one worth putting in the time and taking. . . . Her best offering since her ‘90s career apex.
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Vanguard
Again, though, where is the music in all this? In Amos’s case, it is front and center of a remarkable new album chronicling a saga of, literally, American proportions.
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RTE
Conceived as an alter ego's journey across the United States, 'Scarlet's Walk' sees Tori Amos' ambition go into orbit on this, her seventh album - and finally sees her release a collection to hold its own with 1991's 'Little Earthquakes' and its 1994 follow-up, 'Under The Pink'.
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Opus
Scarlet’s Walk is a much safer album which offers no real surprises.
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Apple Music
With 2002’s Scarlet’s Walk, Tori Amos calms down. She’s still plenty freaky, reveling in character and indulging her wordplay and imagery with a preciousness that’s pure Tori, but she’s also streamlining her music.
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No Ripcord
This isn't a provocative, contemplative or even plain old duffer of a record, it just kind of drifts along, like the sketchy ghosts inhabiting this album's many stories/songs. Another example of creativity gone awry.
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Trouser Press
This is her strongest work since Boys for Pele, and one of the best albums of her career.
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SPIN
As 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.
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Desibeli.net
Scarlet's Walk it is massive in duration (74 min.), but the lightness of the album and catchy melodies are hardly a problem.
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Trade Me
Though it lacks anything resembling a hit single, SCARLET'S WALK is a mature and fully realized work, easily ranking among Tori Amos's very best albums.
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Release Music Magazine
With any luck, this album will perhaps silence all those who dismiss Tori Amos as an artist merely playing the voyeurism card. . . . Good show, Tori.
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Billboard
Her artistry has yielded a total of eight Grammy Award nominations for her past seven albums, but "Scarlet's Walk" -- with the deep emotional pull of such songs . . . -- is her most cohesive and emotionally moving since her Atlantic solo debut.
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AV Club
A characteristically oblique concept album about finding the soul of America in its open roads, the disc marks a vast leap beyond its more gimmicky predecessor.
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Mark's Record Reviews
The truth is simple: This is not my kind of music. It's too subtle. It seems like nothing at all is happening emotionally or musically, . . . .
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hmv.com
It's quiet and gentle and very affecting.
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Pon De Way Way Way
All in all, Scarlet’s Walk is a very good album let down by a wearying running time. It’s a testament to the tracks consistency and quality that the album is both enjoyable and gripping for much of that running time but it is still an unavoidable problem.
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Albumism
October 26, 2017. Fifteen years after its public debut in the fall of 2002, there's still really nothing like Scarlet's Walk in Amos' discography. Possessing an air of grace, impeccable musicianship and storytelling, it's an essential album for longtime followers and Amos neophytes alike.
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The Morning Call
On "Scarlet's Walk" she distances herself from past histrionics and pretensions and in the process hits her stride as a singer and songwriter. . . . Aside from its length . . . "Scarlet's Walk" represents a big step forward for Amos.
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NOW Magazine
The tunes are accessible, even poppy, while the Kate Bush pyrotechnics are kept to a minimum. But after 18 tracks, the ethereal crooning and plodding tempos do grow tiresome. Yawn.
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The Guardian
. . . it is merely tastefully crafted, with lots of moping piano, chin-stroking lyrics and the occasional interlude of emotionally bereft cello. . . . But even the best song here, . . . isn't going to save the music industry.
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EW
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. . . . Cumulative effect? Soul-depleting.
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Rolling Stone
. . . Scarlet’s Walk is told from a single female protagonist’s perspective. But that doesn’t stop Amos from having fun. . . . There’s an army of voices inside Tori Amos, and the girl knows how to use them.
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PopMatters
Scarlet's Walk cements Amos's reputation, but it also seems like a homecoming from the more contrived work of her recent past. Complex, weighty, often brilliant, Scarlet's Walk is the album that many a fan has been waiting for.
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AllMusic
That devoted cult may be all that pay attention to Scarlet's Walk, her first album for Epic, but it marks a return to the sound and feel of Under the Pink and is her best album since then.
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music OMH
. . . what is immediately apparent is the intricate detail which has gone into the production. Every layer, every cymbal crash and piercing shrill is crystal clear. Sonically, it is a joy to listen to.
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Paste Magazine
. . . this record is packed with compelling, beautifully orchestrated moments; it’s nice to know that one icon of my adolescence, at least, can’t be counted out just yet.
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The Austin Chronicle
Scarlet's Walk not only evinces Amos' musical maturation, it's also the singer's most ambitious lyrical work.
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Slant Magazine
It’s not that Scarlet’s Walk isn’t thematically rich . . . , but most of the concept album’s 18 tracks plod along with the same midtempo pacing.
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