![]() "Curtain Call" is one of the highlights of Abnormally Attracted to Sin, and "Bells for Her" transforms from a gentle, sinister dirge on album into something with heft and weight live. Not until halfway through her set did Tori play any new songs from Native Invader, and when she did, she stuck to the ballads: "Reindeer King," and "Breakaway." Both songs are lovely but didn't hold the audience's attention as much as the classics they were surrounded by did. For her second song, "Bliss," the first single and standout from 1999's To Venus and Back, and third, "Father's Son" from 2007's American Doll Posse, she makes few changes from the album versions, but she begins fourth song "Amber Waves," from 2002's Scarlet's Walk, with an improvised intro promising, "America, we won't let them swallow you whole." "Amber Waves" deals with the corruption of a young woman and by extension the corruption of the whole country, and Tori plays it switching back and forth between her piano and keyboards, repeating certain lines for effect. Backing tracks were only used on a few songs during the set, which is overall a good thing having the extra instrumentation is nice, but even better are the unexpected improvisational twists and turns Tori frequently takes when bringing her beloved catalog of songs to a live setting. ![]() Because of this, when she opens the show with "i i e e e" from 1998's From the Choirgirl Hotel, it's with a backing track to give the song its layers of sensual repeated vocals. ![]() ![]() Though she's toured often with a band in the past, the Native Invader outing is a solo one for Tori, leaving the stage empty except for her, a piano, and keyboards. ![]()
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