My «Beekeeper» Review

Released with Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, a memoir piece co-written with music journalist Ann Powers, Tori Amos' eight studio album, The beekeper, is also an autobiographical album with songs that evolves in a chronical emotional journey through metaphorical gardens of love, life and death, all tinted by the beekeeper protagonist.

After a second listening, I can say that this is a bright gleaming album that retains its sunny disposition even when the tempos grow slow and the melodies turn moody.
Slightly newsworthy is 'The Power of Orange Knickers' a frilly duet with a barely there Damien Rice.

The Beekeepper is without a doubt her more mature and studied CD to date, perhaps a shade too classy but it's an ambitious, restless work that builds on her past work...GO buy it, it's worth it if you're a fan.. ;)