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After some discussion about our Friday night plans the only thing that ended up getting done around here was piles of laundry and not much else. David spent his night reading while I watched some TV and listened in full to Tori Amos‘s new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin:

Normally I like to spend time with a new Tori album to listen to it in full with headphones on but since the album is now streaming at her My Space profile, I just plugged in my headphones to my computer and listened to the whole thing last night. It’s really a spectacular album. It’s slower than many of her albums but the lyrics are superb. I still need a few listens to ingest it fully but I do like the disc overall. I am DYING to hear the new stuff live. If you, too, can’t wait til the album gets released on Tuesday, head over the Tori‘s My Space to hear the album in full for yourselves.

I also spent much of last night boning up on my Mac skillz. This is my second week working exclusively on my MacBook Pro and I am really, really loving being back on a Mac computer. My first computer was a Mac and I was a staunch Mac person all thru college. Some of my old instincts have kicked in again but there’s so much new functionality that I need to get familiar with. THIS site suggested by someone on Twitter kept me bizzy learning Mac stuff last night for hours.

I think David and I are meeting up with friends for dinner tonight and then tomorrow we leave for Las Vegas, NV for the NIN show on Monday night. From there we go to NYC for a few days before we come back home next weekend. On the move again. In the meantime, I just wanna enjoy the beautiful weekend here in SoCal.

Tori Amos‘s new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin will not be released here in the US until next Tuesday but the disc is released down under in Australia tomorrow … and in celebration, SameSame.co.au has released the FULL SET of visualette videos that accompany each song on the album. Previously, we’ve been able to see a few of the visualettes HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE on the blog but now we can watch the entire set in full (16 total). Here are a few screencaps from some of the visualettes that can be seen for the first time at the Same Same site:

Tori fans around the world are eagerly awaiting the release of her latest album Abnormally Attracted To Sin. To whet your appetites, Tori’s created a series of short films to accompany each track from the album, with the help of director Christian Lamb. The footage, captured during Amos’ American Doll Posse tour, actually inspired the songs that would become Abnormally Attracted To Sin. In a Same Same exclusive, here they all are in full.

The visualettes for That Guy, Welcome to England, Strong Black Vine and Ophelia can be seen HERE. The visualettes for Fast Horse, Fire to your Plain, Curtain Call and Not Dying Today can be seen HERE. The visualettes for Maybe California, Give, Police Me and Starling can be seen HERE. And the visualettes for 500 Miles, Flavor, Lady in Blue and Abnormally Attracted to Sin can be seen HERE. I am COMPLETELY unable to wait until my copy of the album + DVD arrives so I have watched all of the visualettes and I am so excited by this new music. The songs weave into one another and having accompanying videos with each song really ties the whole thing together. I will deffo need to spend time with Abnormally Attracted to Sin and my headphones once my disc arrives but I am loving what I’m seeing and hearing already. Some of you may be able to hold off and wait on watching these visualettes but I simply could not. For those of you Tori fans like me, enjoy!!

UPDATE: It looks like the site took down all of the visualettes save for two (Welcome to England and Maybe California). I guess they weren’t authorized to post the full set after all. Hope those of you interested were able to watch them before they were taken down.

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A new bunch of video visuallettes from Tori Amos have made their way to the Internets with each one representing a song from her new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin which is due to hit stores on May 19. The fabulous Tori Amos fan site Undented managed to cull together the new visualettes that have been thus far uncovered. Here are a few screencaps from the visualette for the song Ophelia:

And here is are a few screen caps from the visualette for the song Flavor:

The songs are amazing — slower, like the other songs we’ve heard from this album thus far … but they are both extremely beautiful and moving. After the jump, watch both of these visualettes in full and find links to 3 other visualettes for the songs Curtain Call, Give and 500 Miles …

Spinner.com is today giving us our first look and listen to a plaintive new Tori Amos song titled Maybe California from her new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin which is due out on May 19. Tori wrote the song as one mother to other mothers as her gift for Mother’s Day. Here are a few screencaps from the visualette that accompanies the song and a short explanation about the song’s meaning:

This Mother’s Day, Tori Amos wanted to extend a special gift to all mothers in the best way she knows how: with song. ‘Maybe California’ — off her May 19th-due album, ‘Abnormally Attracted to Sin’ — was written, as she describes it, from one mother to another, who, as the lyrics explore, is contemplating suicide. The tune itself is meant as a saving grace, of sorts. “There are people in our lives, and we all know them, that are able to give even in the darkest of times,” Amos, who has an 8-year-old daughter, Natashya, says. “Even when they seem depleted. But somehow by giving, they gain this magical light. Even the most giving person needs a gift every once and a while, just to know they are seen and appreciated. ‘Maybe California’ is my gift to you.”

As Los Angelinos will recognize, the visualette video was filmed in LA and features a few well-known landmarks and attractions. The song is slow and sad but is nonetheless beautiful and poignant. The visualette adds to the feel of the song and can be watched in full after the jump …

Here are a few new promo pics of Tori Amos that have been released to accompany her new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin which will hit stores on May 19. A couple of the pics show a sexy-looking Tori while a few others show the sweet, adorable Tori that we all know and love:

The last three photos above were shot by photographer Lucas Jackson in NYC late last month. Of this batch, I like the dichotomy of the heavily styled photos versus the casual couch photos. But there is still one more promo photo that goes with these new pics and shows Tori abnormally attracted to an iguana — check it out after the jump …

The insanely informative Tori Amos fansite Undented has been updated with a batch of new promo photos for Tori‘s new album Abnormally Attracted to Sin:

While it does look a bit like Tori is doing the sniff test to make sure that she didn’t forget to wear her deodorant, I’m still very excited at any and all new info about the new album. After the jump, check out a couple more promo pics from the Abnormally Attracted to Sin era …

Pink reader Ian gives me the head’s up that the album cover artwork for Tori Amos‘s new disc Abnormally Attracted to Sin has been released along with a new interview and full album tracklisting, courtesy of Spinner.com. Holy shizz, y’all … I’m so excited I can barely type right how. Here is our first look at the beautiful album artwork:

Tori Amos is in a good mood when she phones Spinner from her Cornwall, England studio. She owes her glee, in part, to a white chocolate chip cookie, which she informs us her 8-year-old daughter, Natashya, baked for her. “Husband didn’t marry me for my baking,” she laughs. It’s just weeks away from Amos’ scheduled performance at SXSW, where she’ll unveil new tunes from her tenth studio album, ‘Abnormally Attracted to Sin,’ due May 19. In addition to debuting the album cover and tracklist with Spinner, Amos discussed her new work, how to divvy up the Democrats and Republicans, and what she considers to be the greatest sin of all.

What was the impetus behind this new collection?

I’m drawn to questioning what traditional authorities have defined sin to be. As a minister’s daughter, I’ve been exposed to the traditional belief system. [Sin] has been used to shame and control people. If you’re controlled by a religious structure, then you’re going to have a very different outlook on life and what you’re open to than if you’re not controlled by these old, crumbling concepts.

The new album, ‘Abnormally Attracted to Sin,’ takes its name from a line in ‘Guys and Dolls,’ said by the character Sarah Brown. Do you feel a kinship with her in any way?

No, because I’m not torn by my religious beliefs. A lot of the problems we have right now in our world are because of intolerance dictated by the big religions.

Do you feel it’s your duty or obligation to expose these truths in your work?

I find that right now, in this turbulent time where there’s so much strife all around the world, there is an opportunity for religions to open their doors and their hearts — to become compassionate for someone else’s beliefs instead of intolerant. That’s always really disappointed me about people who talk about being religious, and yet they’re the most judgmental, usually. Right now, we’re at war, and I wrote quite a lot of this album while I was on tour last time. I traveled the world, I played in Israel, I traveled through countries where the major religions exist — and the one thing that I started to do more than ever was to really ask questions about “What do I believe in?” Traveling and seeing how women see themselves in different cultures … how the community thinks of them becomes so important for some of them, more than how than how they even feel about themselves. And some of them are dying — they’re dying in their lives. You might be approved of in your community, but your heart is completely breaking. And I don’t find that a tolerant society — that is not the compassionate Christ path to me. I began to see that kindness and tolerance were not found in institutions, but found in individuals who seemed to be breaking away from the old patriarchal viewpoint.

Did you have a similar experience growing up in a Christian household?

I was brought up in a home that was … we were brought up in the Christian doctrine, and that’s just what it was. We believed in it, and I think the question is: What is that doctrine? Because it’s not about the open heart. Maybe it takes times like we have right now, times of so much upheaval, where you allow yourself to really find out what it is that you feel about something. My daughter has all kinds of questions all the time, and if she were brought up in a less tolerant household, she would be broken, no question about it. But she has a grandfather who was a Methodist minister and she has a part of her family who are very much practicing Christians, yet she loves them. But she is not interested if they agree with what she thinks because she is allowed to believe in what she wants.

One of the current arguments at large in America is whether or not gays should have the right to marry. Religion is often used in the argument against gay marriage. Why do you think that union is so threatening?

We go back to that word — intolerance. That, to me, isn’t what America ever was. It wasn’t about telling another person how to live their life. I always said in a perfect world, you keep the Democrats out of your bank account and the Republicans out of your bedroom. But in life, why do you have to have anybody else in your bedroom if you’re a consenting adult? That is the need people have right now, it seems, to dictate to another person how they should live their life. I find that the greatest sin of all. The record explores all kinds of feelings and depending on your state of mind, your set of circumstances could result in a very different outcome.

What can you tell me about the visuals that will be accompanying each of the songs on this album?

I’m calling them “vignettes” because it’s more akin to a mini-film. This all started on tour last time, when we were filming the live shows. The director was putting together montages, and as I saw the montages, new music was already coming. I started to put the new music to the mini-films that were being made out on the road. When I travel I get all kinds of ideas. I’m forced to see things that I wouldn’t and question. When you asked me about ‘Guys and Dolls,’ I guess I was never a Bible-thumping Christian; I was always trying to question because I had so much religion in my upbringing. I was drawn to those people and those ideas that weren’t accepted necessarily, and it’s not because these ideas in reality are “evil” — that’s just the perception that’s being given. The reality I was brought up in was, “Anything that doesn’t work within the Christian doctrine is sinful.” And that’s a lot of stuff.

Oh my Goddess, it is SO amazing to have Tori Amos back. I love, love, love the coverphoto … she looks like the beautiful Elizabeth Taylor from her Cleopatra days. STUNNING! This short interview is a great tease for what’s to come with this new album. I am so freaking out right now … what a great explosion of new Tori information. After the jump, check out the full tracklisting for the album, all 17 songs …

AMAZING NEWS just out … Tori Amos has revealed the title of her new album and has confirmed that she WILL be playing a showcase concert at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX next month. According to a new press release from her new record company, Universal Republic, Tori‘s new album has been titled Abnormally Attracted to Sin. Additionally, Tori is scheduled to play the La Zona Rosa nightclub in Austin on March 19. Here is the full text of the press release announcement:

Tori Amos to Headline Universal Republic Showcase at South by Southwest Music Conference on March 19, 2009

New CD, ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN, Due Spring 2009

There will be thousands of artists and tens of thousands of music fans gathering at over 60 venues for this year’s South By Southwest Music Conference in Austin, TX, but all eyes will be on groundbreaking star Tori Amos, headlining one of the most anticipated events in the conference’s two decade-plus history, on Thursday, March 19, at historic Austin club, La Zona Rosa.

The Grammy nominated singer/songwriter is headlining a star-studded Universal Republic Records showcase at the popular venue, sure to be looked on as one of the must-see events of the four day festival. Tori will be performing new songs from her upcoming Universal Republic debut album, ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN, scheduled to hit stores and the digital domain this spring, as well as other classics from her influential repertoire.

Tori’s recent signing with Universal Republic is in keeping with the inventive star’s unconventional approach to the artist/record company relationship. Universal Republic will distribute Tori’s new album, as well as correlate other ventures in tandem with Tori’s prolific creative output. ABNORMALLY ATTRACTED TO SIN, her tenth studio album, is another innovative chapter in the artist’s trailblazing story. Every track on the album will be accompanied by a corresponding ‘visualette,’ featuring footage that has been captured over the past year. Shot in HD and Super 8, the visualettes will incorporate a documentary style.

Tori’s most recent album, AMERICAN DOLL POSSE, which has been hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as ‘her best album in years,’ was released in 2007 to a chorus of rave reviews. The captivating album, like many of her previous efforts, adhered to a strong conceptual theme, with Tori inhabiting multiple archetypal female personae, a testament to her willingness to continue to push the boundaries of the female singer/songwriter.

Regarded as one of the most emotionally fearless live artists in music today, her most recent world tour, launched in the summer of 2007, saw her soar with her first full-fledged rock band in nearly a decade. Media platforms such as the BBC lauded both her live show and album as ‘returning Tori Amos back to the forefront of a genre she defined…still pushing her own boundaries.

Woot! This is such great news for Tori Amos fans like myself. As soon as I learned of this news, I immediately called my BFF Sarah to gush with her … and then began writing up this post for publication. I am so thrilled that new Tori Amos music is on the way — you have no idea! If I can be assured entry into this SXSW showcase performance, I will do everything I can to get my buns down to Austin to attend the show. I’ve never done SXSW but I think seeing Tori play an intimate venue like this would be the best way to be introduced to the festival. Again, I say, Woot!!! What great, great news!

UPDATE: Rumor has it that Tori will perform the entirety of her new album at SXSW but, honestly, I think she’ll only play a few tracks off the new disc. In any event, I’ll be there in person to bear witness to her SXSW performance — I made all the reservations yesterday and am going to Austin, TX next month!!! I am so excited … and you can be sure I’ll bring the deets and as much info about the performance as possible.

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