My favourite album: Tori Amos – From the Choirgirl Hotel

Continuing our series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Alex Macpherson explains why he still falls for Tori AmosAny artist who deals in catharsis risks having their output assessed solely through the prism of their biography. So it was throughout Tori Amos's career, with the coverage of 1998's From the Choirgirl Hotel focusing on the miscarriage she suffered before recording it.It's certainly not irrelevant. Amos's ...

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