- rock, alternative rock
- 54 min
- 12 tracks
- Atlantic
From the Choirgirl Hotel is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Tori Amos. It was released on May 5, 1998, on Atlantic Records. The album was Amos's first to be recorded at her own Martian Engineering Studios in Cornwall, England and was self-produced, with the mixing being handled by longtime collaborators Marcel van Limbeek and Mark Hawley, whom she had married in early 1998.
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Character-led, contemporary, grave and spare.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Chicago Sun-Times3.5/4 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times3/4 ★
- NME6/10
- Pitchfork6.7/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Spin8/10
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Tracks
- 1Spark4:14
- 2Cruel4:07
- 3Black‐Dove (January)4:39
- 4Raspberry Swirl3:58
- 5Jackie’s Strength4:27
- 6i i e e e4:08
- 7Liquid Diamonds6:22
- 8She’s Your Cocaine3:42
- 9Northern Lad4:19
- 10Hotel5:20
- 11Playboy Mommy4:09
- 12Pandora’s Aquarium4:45
12 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Tori Amos
- Label
- Atlantic
- Released
- 1998
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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