Then on the flipside we also have a Torturous piece that makes you wonder how it ever got approval to promote the product...
After putting Tori Amos in the dock in my last Artistic Integrity, I realised that she now has a staggering fifteen album covers (including Y Kant Tori Read) that are ripe for scrutiny. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to then decide on her Pride & Prejudice covers now could I?
The Scorcher
The records concept is all about the titular Scarlet travelling across America on the open road. This framed Polaroid really captures that feeling; it looks like the sort of thing a young carefree traveller would display from such a road trip.
I might not be a huge fan of some of the concepts Tori has explored on her records but out of all of them, I think this artwork is the best representation of what she was trying to accomplish for the album.
The Torture
What I don't get here is that the album covers five different personas but the cover only has three of these characters on show. Surely it would have made the theme clearer if all five were present on the front. Yes I know it is a wraparound but no one looks at the back cover when first viewing a sleeve; your first impression is what you see on the cover.
If you take the picture as a whole with all five characters on show and Isabel in the middle; then it does become rather a striking piece of art. Technically splitting the picture in two robs it of its impact.
I actually prefer the picture on the inside of the sleeve as it has far more colour and less grey, but I guess the chicken won out!
Don't agree with my choices, well here are all fifteen covers for you to be the judge.
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