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''American Doll Posse'' is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released in 2007 by Epic records. A concept album, ''American Doll Posse'' sees Amos assuming the identity of five different female personalities inspired by Greek mythology in order to narrate stories of life in modern America. Themes include opposition to the Iraq war, recording industry misogyny, disillusion, sexuality, personal loss and female empowerment in general. Musically, the album is more rock-oriented than other studio albums by Amos, notably featuring more guitar and drums than previous albums ''The Beekeeper'' (2005) and ''Scarlet's Walk'' (2002). The album peaked at no. 5 on the ''Billboard'' 200,〔http://www.billboard.com/artist/430284/tori-amos/chart?f=305〕 marking Amos' sixth Top 10 album. The album's lead single in the US, "Big Wheel", was a hit on Triple-A radio. In Europe, "Bouncing Off Clouds" was released as the lead single. ==Background and release== Following songwriting during and after Amos' 2005 solo tour, recording sessions for ''American Doll Posse'' began in June 2006, with longtime collaborators Matt Chamberlain on percussion, Jon Evans on bass, and Mac Aladdin on guitars in Amos' home studio Martian Engineering in Cornwall, like all of Amos' albums since ''From the Choirgirl Hotel'' (1998). As the album's musical direction was more focused around a full band than previous Amos recordings, all principal musicians were present in the studio from the very beginning of the recording sessions. After a month of tracking work, Amos continued editing and recording for the remainder of the year, at the same time working on the promotion for her career-spanning box set ''A Piano: The Collection''. Mixing work was completed by February 2007, and the album title was announced through a press release on February 20. Prior to its release, Amos revealed that the nature of the album's lyrics are political and confrontational: While early press indicated that Amos may bring back both the harpsichord (last used on ''Boys for Pele'') and the Wurlitzer (used on ''Strange Little Girls'' and ''Scarlet's Walk''), only the latter appeared on the album, on the track "Dark Side of the Sun". Before the album's release, Amos made several comments about bringing a "warrior woman" out, as well as stating that the record would be a very different chapter from what had come before. As with Amos's previous releases under the Epic Records label, ''American Doll Posse'' was offered in a limited deluxe edition as well as the standard edition. The deluxe edition includes two videos (a behind-the-scenes of her photo shoot and a slide show-style bonus track titled "My Posse Can Do"), an expanded booklet, and five postcards, one of each "doll". In addition, bonus tracks were available on the editions sold by certain retailers such as iTunes and Target. ''American Doll Posse'' serves as Amos's third and final album under her contract with Epic records. After completing promotion of the album, Amos announced that she would from now on be operating independently of major record labels, expressing increased frustration in the industry putting boundaries and limitations on artists.〔http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1045224/tori-amos-splits-with-epic-goes-indie〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「American Doll Posse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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