Tori Amos

With the ghastly delights of Halloween, and the long awaited thrills and spills of the latest Bond movie to look forward to, as well as International Music Day, World Food Day, World Mental Health Day and of course Mole Day (Not what you may think) October has a lot to pack in. As the festive season fast approaches there also appears to be an extra impetus given to making sure that new releases come to market in a timely fashion and do not get caught up in the Christmas chaos. Whatever your thoughts on the inevitable new batch of sleigh bell enhanced holiday songs, you know that there's no point competing with the likes of Mariah Carey and getting lost in the increased traffic. October is in just the right place to ensure that your new music will be heard and that it will hopefully gain enough momentum to give it an extra boost of sales come Christmas. With that in mind we've picked our top five albums that we're sure will delight your ears this month. 

Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters

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Twenty five years ago Tori Amos released her third full length album, Boys For Pele. It remains one of her most successful albums to date, even though it was by no means a conventional album; even then, and even by Tori's standards. At the time of it's release on 22nd January 1996 Rolling Stone magazine gave it two stars saying it's lyrics were "ultimately mystifying and, well, bad". (Hopefully in the two and a half decades that have followed they've revised that opinion upwards because Boys For Pele is a stunning album). 

Tori Amos - Boys For Pele

Following on from Tori's breakthrough album Little Earthquakes in 1992 and subsequently, Under The Pink, with it's huge single, Cornflake Girl some two years later, Boys For Pele came with a weight of expectation. Amos was only 32 at the time of the album's release and was only 31 when she started to record it in the June of 1995 but already it seems that Tori Amos had many things figured out. 

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The 90s is by far one of our favourite decades for music, not only because of its rich and diverse span of genres, but also because of the incredible female talent that came out of that time. Here are just a few of the greatest women-led albums of this extraordinary era.

1. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (1992)

This American redhead's debut album was actually a second attempt which she worked on with her then boyfriend Eric Rosse following the break-up of her band Y Kant Tori Read. It became a tour de force, breaking pop conventions with its acoustic piano and Tori's unusual vocal style, and lyrics that range from the funny to the surreal. It's a sublime commentary on female sexuality and it hasn't aged a day.

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Tori Amos is returning with her fifteenth studio album 'Native Invader' later this year to coincide with her forthcoming world tour. The album is all about the contrast between the attitudes of nature and that of humankind, and marks quite the turning point in her music career.

Tori Amos unveils new album 'Native Invader'

'Native Invader' marks the American singer-songwriter's first release on Decca Records and comes three years after her US number 7 album 'Unrepentant Geraldines'. Since then she has contributed to the Netflix documentary 'Audrie and Daisy' with the song 'Flicker' and the original cast recording of the stage play 'The Light Princess'.

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