“I knew a girl who wrote ‘Silent All These Years’,” spits Tori Amos with startling venom, as ‘Shush’, the stentorian opener to her 18th album grinds to a close. “Where is she?” It’s a good question, since the Tori Amos who wrote ‘Silent All These Years’ all those years ago is in her sixties now and there are those who still favour its parent album, 1992’s magical Little Earthquakes.
So, yes, a good question, but not an entirely fair one and Amos is clearly irked by it. She’s moved on of course, but by the closing ’23 Peaks’, she’s admitting, “I need your help to change me back/Back into the woman I want to be”.
She remains a woman with a distinctive voice and an even more distinctive way with a Bösendorfer, but as she’s matured,…

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