Tori Amos Shares New Single 'Spies' From Upcoming Album

Tori Amos will release her highly anticipated new album Ocean to Ocean on October 29, 2021. She reveals the album's humor and lightness with new album single "Spies" propelled by locomotive bass and drums and Tori's singular lush pop production.

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With many parents having a relatable experience at home with their children during the Covid lockdowns, the song is an endearing account of the bats and other creepy-crawlies that entered the Cornish house terrorizing her daughter Tash at night.

Ocean to Ocean is an album of kinship and love, of emotional and geographical dislocation. It explores environmental concerns, the restraints of the pandemic for those on the cusp of adulthood, empowerment, loss & healing delivered with Tori's trademark urgency and passion. For a record written within limited surroundings, two things are remarkable - its rich stylistic variation, from tango to wide-screen romance, and the big-heartedness of songs, which run almost like a series of love letters to family both present and absent.

Splitting her life between Cornwall, Florida and the road, her songs are written with the act of traveling and observing. As communities around the world suffered the loss of life, live music, travel, and much at all to observe, Tori had a difficult time during the pandemic. Holed up in Cornwall, she hit a place of personal crisis.

Having always been intensely affected by political upheaval in the US, Tori was dismayed by the storming of the Capitol on January 6. Against all odds, that crisis resulted in Ocean to Ocean, Amos' most personal work in years - an album bursting with warmth and connection, with deep roots in her earliest song writing. She descended to an emotional state lower than she had been to for a long time - but the depths became creative, forcing a return to the kind of introspection she recognised from her debut album Little Earthquakes.

Listen to the new single here:

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