Tori Amos

Tori Amos made the piano a blade and a confessional on fire. Since Little Earthquakes, she has put desire, trauma, myth and religion into songs that refuse obedience, as if the child prodigy had walked into the cathedral to set the stained glass ablaze from within.

From the visionary ’90s to the concept albums and recent returns, her work insists that intimacy can be political when sung without asking for absolution.

Why listen to Tori Amos?

Every song feels like a prayer that decided not to kneel.