Tori Amos

Tori Amos suffers from the same affliction as Prince and other freakishly talented
musicians: Too smart and too foolish to take direction, she overreaches and ends up
making music that's too abstract and oblique. On her eighth album, she does something
much less expected: She squanders her gifts on a bland record. At its worst, The
Beekeeper suggests a female John Mayer or Jack Johnson. Many of these under... More >