Tori Amos Announces New Album, Tour Dates

Pianist and singer/songwriter Tori Amos has announced the release of a new album this year. Night of the Hunters is scheduled to be released this September on the classical label Deutsche Grammophon, according to a statement on her official website.

“It’s a 21st century song cycle inspired by classical music themes spanning over 400 years,” Amos said of the album’s sound. “I have used the structure of a song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story.”

Night of the Hunters will be the songwriter’s 12th studio album, a follow-up to 2009’s Abnormally Attracted to Sin and her seasonal album Midwinter Graces. As Amos is fond of concept and story albums, Night of the Hunters will follow suit, telling the story of “a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship.”

“In the course of one night,” Amos explains, “she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter. One of the main themes explored on this album is the hunter and the hunted and how both exist within us.”

Amos, who gained popularity in the 90s with her 1992 debut album Little Earthquakes, is also contributing to the Royal National Theatre’s production of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess. Set to debut in 2012, she is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson’s adaptation. “Winter’s Carol” from Midwinter Graces will appear among the musical’s Amos-penned songs.

A tour for Night of the Hunters will begin on September 28 in Helsinki, Finland. The tour will continue through Europe and the U.K. through November 9, when it ends in Dublin, Ireland. No U.S. dates have been announced.

This article originally appeared on AllMediaNY.com