She pushed the envelope for musical innovation and confessional lyrics. Where would music be without TORI AMOS?. With Trouble’s Lament she now unveiled the first song from her upcoming new album Unrepentant Geraldines (out May 13th via Mercury / Universal). It will be TORI AMOS‘ fourteenth studio album and definitely a very important release of 2014.
Trouble’s Lament is an eerie Southern blues song in which TORI AMOS‘ matchless voice conjures up images of how the ‘flames from Satan’s tongue are charged and licking at her heels…’.
Having been born in North Carolina, the South walks with me wherever I am in the world, I can’t get it out of my DNA. I don’t know if it’s a genetic thing, because my mother’s side, so far back, is from the Eastern Cherokee nation. So it’s really in the blood. It’s almost like you listen to the land speaking to you. And wherever I am I can hear the South calling me. I really like the idea that trouble was a young woman….I see her on my travels a lot. And maybe I knew her many years ago when I was in my twenties.
Unrepentant Geraldines is a return to the inspiring and personal music that AMOS is known for. She states that ‘After 2009 I walked into three records that are sort of a period of writing that was a different stylistic choice. I needed to walk away from contemporary songwriting. I needed to do something different as a writer.’ But those three diverse albums, Midwinter Graces, Night of Hunters, and Gold Dust), followed by her first full-bore theatrical project, The Light Princess, alchemized something anew within. Out of the flux of ambition and distraction and imagination now comes her new album, Unrepentant Geraldines. It’s an album on which Amos once more zeroes in on the writing of brightly melodic, deftly evocative chamber-pop. Enjoy the first single Trouble’s Lament below.
TORI AMOS – Unrepentant Geraldines Tracklist:
1. America
2. Trouble’s Lament
3. Wild Way
4. Wedding Day
5. Weatherman
6. 16 Shades of Blue
7. Maids of Elfen-mere
8. Promise
9. Giant’s Rolling Pin
10. Selkie
11. Unrepentant Geraldines
12. Oysters
13. Rose Dover
14. Invisible Boy
TORI AMOS – Unrepentant Geraldines Tourdates 2014:
May 5 – Cork, Ireland – Cork Opera House
May 7 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia
May 8 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia
May 10 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy
May 11 – Manchester, UK – Apollo
May 12 – Birmingham, UK – Symphony Hall
May 14 – Nottingham, UK – Royal Concert Hall
May 15 – London, UK – Royal Albert Hall
May 17 – Paris, France – Le Grand Rex
May 19 – Frankfurt, Germany – Laeiszhalle
May 20 – Berlin, Germany – Tempodrom
May 22 – Oslo, Norway – Scentrum Scene
May 24 – Copenhagen, Denmark – DR Koncertsalen
May 25 – Hamburg, Germany- Laieszhalle
May 26 – Rotterdam, Holland – Concertgebouw De Doelen
May 28 – Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
May 29 – Amsterdam, Holland – Het-Concertgebouw
May 31 – Zurich, Switzerland – Volkshaus
June 2 – Rome, Italy – Auditorium Parco della Musica
June 3 – Milan, Italy – Teatro Nazionale
June 4 – Padova, Italy – Geox
June 6 – Vienna, Austria – Konzerthaus
June 7 – Linz, Austria – Brucknerhaus (Opera House)
June 9 – Stuttgart, Germany – Hegel Saal
June 10 – Munich, Germany – Philharmonie
June 11 – Prague, Czech Republic – Congress Center Prague
June 12 – Warsaw, Poland – Sala Kongresowa
June 14 – St. Petersburg, Russia – Music Hall
June 15 – Moscow, Russia – Crocus Hall
June 17 – Kiev, Ukraine – Oktiabrskiy
June 19 – Bucharest, Romania – Arenele Romane
June 20 – Sofia, Bulgaria – National Palace of Culture, Hall 1
June 26 – Johannesburg, South Africa – The Teatro at Montecasino
June 27 – Johannesburg, South Africa – The Teatro at Montecasino
June 29 – Cape Town, South Africa – International Convention Centre
June 30 – Cape Town, South Africa – International Convention Centre
July 16 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Orpheum
July 17 – Seattle, WA, USA – Paramount Theatre
July 18 – Portland, OR, USA – Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
July 21 – Oakland, CA, USA – Paramount Theatre
July 23 – Los Angeles, CA, USA – Greek Theatre
July 24 – San Diego, CA, USA – Humphrey’s
July 25 – Mesa, AZ, USA – Mesa Arts Center
July 27 – Denver, CO, USA – Paramount Theatre
July 29 – Dallas, TX, USA – Winspear Opera House
July 30 – Austin, TX, USA – Long Center
August 1 – St. Louis, MO, USA – Peabody Opera House
August 2 – Kansas City, MO, USA -Midland Theatre
August 3 – St. Paul, MN, USA -The O’Shaughnessy
August 5 – Chicago, IL, USA – Chicago Theatre
August 6 – Detroit, MI, USA – Fox Theatre
August 7 – Cleveland, OH, USA – Cain Park
August 8 – Toronto, ON, Canada – Massey Hall
August 10 – Philadelphia, PA, USA – Verizon Hall
August 12 – New York, NY, USA – Beacon Theatre
August 13 – New York, NY, USA – Beacon Theatre
August 15 – Boston, MA, USA – Opera House
August 16 – Washington, DC, USA – DAR Constitution Hall
August 18 – Nashville, TN, USA – Ryman Auditorium
August 19 – Atlanta, GA, USA – Cobb-Energy PAC
August 20 – Durham, NC, USA – Durham PAC
August 22 – Clearwater, FL, USA – Ruth Eckerd Hall
August 23 – Orlando, FL, USA – Bob Carr PAC
August 24 – Miami, FL, USA – Fillmore at The Jackie Gleason Theatre