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Sep 20, 2011Just describing the album makes it seem like Amos has completely disappeared down the rabbit hole, but Hunters is actually her most enjoyable album in years.
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Oct 4, 2011For all its faults, give Night of Hunters more than a little patience, and perhaps don't pay too close attention to the plot, and it reveals itself to be Amos' most consistent, interesting album since her mid-90s heyday.
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Sep 29, 2011At 14 songs and over 70 minutes long, it's certainly not for the faint hearted or easily distracted. Yet for those who are willing to put the effort in, some of Amos' most beautiful work will be found within.
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UncutSep 20, 2011If the aim was to out-bonkers Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush while creating a compelling album, Amos has more than succeeded. [Oct 2011, p.81]
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Sep 19, 2011It contains the power and dynamics and splendor of her very best material, but because it is a work of classical crossover, any expectation of pop hooks or singalong choruses will be met with disappointment; consequently, its sophistication, elegance, and poetry will reward anyone who takes the proper time to absorb it.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 28, 2011Is this for highbrow fans only? It depends. How do you feel about Gregorian chants. [30 Sep 2011, p.74]
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Sep 19, 2011Not only is she an artist maturing and growing with her music, but in great Amos fashion, she is making sense of her past in a wholly original, intelligent way. And at this stage of her career, she's earned the right to a few spirit guides.
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MagnetNov 21, 2011Despite certain songs dragging on longer than need be, Night combines classical and flighty pop quite masterfully. [#82, p.53]
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Oct 12, 2011Night of Hunters feels refreshing, unique, and utterly lovely; it's another great success in a career that has quite a few of them.
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Sep 23, 2011The album as a whole is amongst the best showcases of her piano work because she allows herself to meander about the keyboard and never lets production to drown it out.
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Sep 19, 2011Amos' classical-label debut is a wildly imaginative ride full of orchestral fireworks and fairy-tale melodrama, though anyone with a Ren Faire aversion should stick to more straight-ahead songs like "Edge of the Moon" and "Job's Coffin."
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MojoDec 22, 2011It's not an ideal entry point into Amos;s unique world. [Nov 2011, p.98]
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Q MagazineNov 8, 2011Recalling Kate Bush and the enigmatic chamber music of Penguin Cafe and North Sea Radio Orchestras, the way is full of mystic visions, and the deathly conclusion is bittersweet. [Nov. 2011, p. 127]
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Sep 20, 2011Either way, if you're no fan of the fey and fantastical, you're best off fleeing. Still interested? Well, hard work it may be, but it's not without its rewards.
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Sep 20, 2011This predominantly slow, somber album ultimately overstays its welcome.
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Sep 20, 2011If concept albums aren't your thing, so be it. But if a rare musical vision is, you'd be foolish to pass up Night of Hunters.
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Sep 19, 2011Devotees will no doubt swoon (and sceptics scoff) at its florid excesses, but Amos's voice possesses enough conviction and personality to breathe life into what could have been an orchestral folly.
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Sep 19, 2011Night of Hunters is a beautiful, smart record, but it's also, by design, an obtuse and insular album by an artist who already skews pretty far in those directions.
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Sep 16, 2011Amos herself performs with an insistently flat calmness: when her 11-year-old daughter Natashya pops up on a few tracks, in character as a shape-shifting fox, she actually proves an odder, witchier, more compelling voice than her mother, who could be mistaken for her piano teacher.
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Oct 18, 2011It doesn't rock, but it waltzes, spinning a tale involving animated trees, demons and what may be peyote cactus tea.
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Sep 20, 2011The bulk of the album's melodies and arrangements are too busily discursive to hum after the fact, making it tough for Night of Hunters to do what Amos set out to do: haunt the listener.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 113 out of 123
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Mixed: 6 out of 123
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Negative: 4 out of 123
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