News: The Guardian's ADP Review

Caroline Sullivan reviews American Doll Posse today on The Guardian’s website, giving the album 4 out of 5 stars. (“Folk?” Really?) Thanks, Pete.

It’s ninth-album time and Amos is about as fashionable as carbohydrates these days, but she remains one of the most ambitious conceptual songwriters on a major label. There are five Toris on the cover – warrior Tori, hippy Tori, voodoo Tori clutching rooster – each of whom symbolises a facet of womanhood. The aim of the 23 songs is to reassemble the segments into a cohesive whole, in the hope of “rousing 18-year-olds to wake up and make [political] choices”. It’s a tall order, but she makes an inspiring role model, answerable only to her fierce, funny self. Some of her best work in years is here: a solemn, witty shout-out to the commander-in-chief titled Yo George (“I have an allergy to your policies’”), the echo-laden rocker You Can Bring Your Dog, which bawdily likens people to pets, and the distorted squall of Code Red. There’s far too much, though; cut to 10 tracks it would have been her one of her most significant records.