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“Christian jumped on the bus and made daily montages of the band’s life on the road, using music from the live shows as a soundtrack to the footage,” Tori said. “When I saw what he had done, the new songs started to come to me.” The visualettes are not videos in the traditional sense—there is no lipsyncing. Amos thinks of them as “silent movies,” citing early movie star Mary Pickford as a reference point. Some of Tori’s characters from “American Doll Posse” appear in footage Lamb shot over the past year and a half. Some visualettes are interspersed with live footage from the tour, while others were filmed to work with the songs that would come to her later. Rather than literal visual representations of lyrics, Lamb’s images are complicated and integral to the logic of “AATS.”
“AATS” is made up songs I wrote on the road watching Christian’s footage, and the songs I wrote after spending some time in California, which is where I had lived before Little Earthquakes was released,” Amos explained.
Jody: When the new album comes out, there’s gonna be editions of it that have an accompanying DVD. I read about it, anyway, that the DVD has videos that correspond to the songs, is that correct?
Tori: Yeah, each song — except “Mary Jane” — so there are 16 visualettes. They’re little movies that were made. They’re not lip-synching, so they’re not really videos. I worked with a filmmaker, Christian Lamb, and he was filming the live show in San Francisco, and he jumped on the bus to just get montage stuff for the live concert footage, and he would show me every day what he was filming, of the crew and the earth and of course I was there too, sometimes. And I would look at these stories he was putting together, and I would say, “Christian, shut the music off,” and it would be the music from the live shows. I said, “Stop, turn it off, and let’s just watch it.” And new music, there was a different story to be told. So I started writing furiously to some of the things that I was seeing, our real lives that were happening and all the things everybody experienced as we travelled the world, and the world was changing so quickly, and is changing so quickly. And then I started writing a lot this summer, and then we filmed again, after the songs were created.




Give is AWESOME. It's kind of like Rainign Blood with drums, and clearer vocals. Very ominous. If this is any indication of what the rest of the album might be like, then yay.
Ooh, Strong Black Vine has strings! And they're dramatic. Could have been a track from Kate Bush's The Dreaming.
Flavor starts with a beat that is similar to the one on The Beekeeper, but it's a bit stronger. And if my ears aren't fooling me, there is auto-tune on the last word of certain lines.
I am officially freaking out and please be aware that this post is now going to be 'Molly Knight listens to The Beekeeper'-style, because EVERYTHING sounds fucking awesome right now.
Ok so Not Dying Today is ummm... I'm not jumping up and down over this track. Pretty commercial track. And yes, the 'I may be 6 feet under, full of thunder, I'm not dying today' line is kind of... Meh. I guess this could work as a road trip track and will probably be appreciated live because the badn does rock out a bit on the choruses.
Maybe California starts out with piano and strings and Tori... Drums start about halfway into the songs. I think I hear those drumsticks that look like paint brushes here and there. Pretty song.
As most of you expected after hearing the live solo version of Curtain Call, the album version is a bit watered down. But at least the beat is somewhat interesting - the didn't completely turn it into a typical drums/bass/piano track like most of the tracks on SW/TBK.
We've all heard Fire To Your Plain. I like the synth sounds on it
And let's all welcome back that string sample that was used in the beginning of iieee, it's on the beginning of Police Me. This track doesn't grab me instantly. It actually sounds kind of chaotic but not in a good Raspberry Swirl/Hotel way.
That Guy is another kind of dark track, yay. I wouldn't be surprised if this was originally written for the musical, it sounds like it could be on a soundtrack or something. I think I hear brass, there are definitely strings.
Ok my colleagues are all here now and I really have to get to work (deadline is approaching rapidly). Abnormally Attracted To Sin is kind of ambient, very different from anything Tori has done in recent years. It's almost like Tori in space.
Ok so this track came on and I thought 'this is pretty bad', luckily it turned out to be 500 Miles and not some other track.
Mary Jane is like 'Velvet Revolution Part 2, but instead of the bouzouki or whatever the hell that instrument was, it's just Tori + piano. It clocks in at 2:$2 and is the shortest track on the album. Oh, the track times have been posted before right?
Starling is one of the weaker tracks, I think. But at least it has an interesting sounding synth-sound that is used on the song quite frequently.
Fast Horse also doesn't instantly grab me, yet it's very very similar to Welcome To England, except for the sampled beats that are on WTE. Something about a Maserataaai (she must have traded in her Saab or something, I couldn't really hear the context).
Ophelia is a pretty ballad.
Lady In Blue is another kind of ambient track, pretty cool. Lots of pretty (yet haunting) synthy sounds. The way she sings kind of reminds me of You Belongs To Me and Strange Fruit. I really like this, as with the song AATS it sounds pretty different from anything she's done before.WTF all of a sudden the piano kicks in, as well as drums. I kind fo wasn't expecting this but since the track is 7:12, this was pretty likely to happen. The vocal melody of the second part reminds me of Space Dog a lot. A LOT.
My overall impression after this first listen is that it's definitely a step up from The Beekeeper and American Doll Posse, especially for those of you who like Tori's ominous and spacey side. There are definitely some tracks on there that I will probably be skipping in a while, but right now I feel that the good songs really do make up for those.
So is this another Pele or Choirgirl? No. Is it a step up from TKB and ADP? Yes. Sonically, I would say it's similar to SLG (for its moodyness) and To Venus And Back (for its spaced out sounds).


And let's all welcome back that string sample that was used in the beginning of iieee, it's on the beginning of Police Me.

MUTTA.. jos se sen tilaa Euroopasta niin Hollannissahan levy julkaistaan jo melkein viikkoa aikaisemmin.. hmm. Ei.. en uskalla toivoa liikoja
Toivottavasti se vastaa jotain takaisin.

Ehtii ilmestymispäiväksi jos ehtii, ja jos ei, niin voin kyllä tyytyä fyysistä levyä odotellessani kuuntelemaan sitä koneelta (Spotifysta, jos sinne heti ilmaantuu, tai sitten... "jostain muualta"
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