With this debut album, with honest and emotionally elaborate songs, Tori Amos definitely rose above the comparisons with Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell. As well as being a skilled and resourceful keyboardist, she proved herself as a versatile singer, who could switch effortlessly and quickly between whispering and screaming and back again. She focused mainly on intimate stories about her religious
… childhood, trauma from her childhood and above all, sex, self-discovery and bad relationships. The first song she hit audiences with was Silent All These Years, but all the tracks - memories of her father in Winter, the bittersweet Happy Phantom, the chilling account of her own rape in Me And A Gun - worked together to create an inspiring but few easy listening experience.more
