Tori Amos: The Beekeeper

(Music Sales America). The follow-up to 2002’s Scarlet’s Walk, the fiery earth-sprite has fashioned another high minded concept album, tying her 20 songs into a garden motif that is part Alice in Wonderland , and part autobiographical journey. This is an overgrown labyrinth of the subconscious as her protagonist experiences a series of life altering events and emotions. The Beekeeper sees the return of the quirky singer to the familiar, whimsical terrain of her 1992 smash Little Earthquakes , but with stronger and more tangible storylines and a much more assured and nuanced voice.