Christ Church (Delgany, County Wicklow, Ireland) Georgian house (County Cork, Ireland) (principal recording) The Egyptian Room (New Orleans, LA) Dinosaur Studios (New Orleans, LA) AIR Studios (London) (additional recording)
Genre
Baroque pop[1]
Alternative rock[2]
Length
70:32
Label
Atlantic (US)
East West (Europe)
Producer
Tori Amos
Tori Amos chronology
Under the Pink (1994)
Boys for Pele (1996)
From the Choirgirl Hotel (1998)
Singles from Boys for Pele
"Caught a Lite Sneeze" Released: January 2, 1996
"Talula" Released: March 11, 1996 (UK)
"Professional Widow" Released: July 2, 1996 (US)
"Hey Jupiter" Released: July 20, 1996 (UK)
"In the Springtime of His Voodoo" Released: September 24, 1996
Boys for Pele is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Tori Amos. Preceded by the first single, "Caught a Lite Sneeze", by three weeks, the album was released on January 22, 1996, in the United Kingdom, on January 23 in the United States, and on January 29 in Australia. Despite the album being Amos's least radio friendly material to date,[3]Boys for Pele debuted at number two on both the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart,[4][5] making it her biggest simultaneous transatlantic debut, her first Billboard top 10 debut, and the highest-charting US debut of her career to date.[6]
Boys for Pele was recorded in rural Ireland and Louisiana and features 18 songs that incorporate harpsichord, clavichord, harmonium, gospel choirs, brass bands and full orchestras. Amos wrote all of the tracks, and for the first time, she served as sole producer for her own album. For Amos, the album was a step into a different direction, in terms of singing, songwriting, and recording, and is experimental in comparison to her previous work.[7][8][9]
^Gentry, Amy (October 23, 2018). "How Tori Amos' Boys for Pele Rewrote Pop By Daring To Be Ugly". The Guardian. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
^Yeung, Neil Z. "Tori Amos – Boys for Pele". AllMusic. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
^"Tori Amos: Biography". Rollingstone. Archived from the original on April 27, 2007. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
^"The Billboard 200 – Chart Listing for the Week Of 10 February 1996". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 22, 2007. Retrieved October 13, 2007.
^Powers, Ann (January 14, 1996). "POP MUSIC: Three Women and Their Journeys in Song;A Poet With a Piano, And a Lot of Bravado". The New York Times. Retrieved October 14, 2007.
^Jaeger, Barbara (January 26, 1996). "Tori Amos Sets Up Puzzlement". The Record.
^Fleissner, Jen (February 13, 1996). "Deep Space Tori". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 20, 2008.
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