“I think all of us were shocked by those 18 months,” she says, a hint of ruefulness in her voice. Inspired in part by the frustration she felt witnessing the January riots in Washington and recorded as she quarantined in Cornwall, England, Ocean to Ocean came together after Amos scrapped an entire album’s worth of material at the onset of the pandemic. Accompanied by sumptuous orchestration and her trusted piano, Amos digs into both everyday worries and larger anxieties, with the tremors of climate change and political upheaval fresh on her mind. Her just-released 16th album, Ocean to Ocean, shudders with new, roiling tension.
Amos’ music, from her 1992 solo debut Little Earthquakes onward, has flitted from chamber pop to alt-rock to poetic ballads but always kept its incisive impact, inspiring a legion of dedicated fans and songwriters in her wake.
Over the past 30 years, the North Carolina-born musician has married her extraordinary piano skills and singularly powerful voice to address crises of faith, feminism, and politics with keen insight. Whether it’s androgynous new-wavers, classic pop songwriters, or brain-scrambling electronic musicians, Amos has always sought out artists who shift the way she perceives the world around her.
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