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Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos
What makes Little Earthquakes a classic is not any single quality but the way several qualities converge and hold their tension. Amos was classically trained, and her piano playing has the precision and command that comes from years of formal instruction. The piano on this record is always in service of something deeper: dread, longing, fury, tenderness.
The album's most enduring quality is its emotional precision. The subject matter — sexual alienation, religious trauma, the difficulty of asserting one's own voice, the slow aftermath of assault — is handled with a directness that was…
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