The leakiness of information regarding Tori Amos’ forthcoming album, American Doll Posse, gathers pace. We have the first review (although it’s more of a description), and most lyrics. There are some audio snippets around too.

I will however be restraining myself on all counts, because an album isn’t supposed to be experienced in pieces. First impressions invariably influence your whole life’s experience of an album, so any of this will permanently damage my feelings about the album. You’ll gather from this that I don’t like lead singles from ‘album’ artists either.

Don’t believe me? I first listened to Rainbirds’ second album Call Me Easy, Say I’m Strong, Love Me My Way, It Ain’t Wrong when I was hopelessly drunk, although obviously not too drunk to forget that I listened to it. It’s never been quite the album I expected or hoped it would be.