From The Choirgirl Hotel

Spin (1/99, p.91) - Ranked #13 on Spin's list of "Top 20 Albums of '98."
Rolling Stone (5/14/98, pp.55-56) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Amos comes clean with the rock & roll that's always driven her....A woolly jam dynamic pervades HOTEL....Amos throws herself and her various keyboards into bass-drum-guitar ensembles augmented by percussion loops and string sections..."
Spin (6/98, pp.127-128) - 8 (out of 10) - "...Even when she's not singing about religion--and on her new album...she barely does at all--Amos achieves a kind of ecstatic holiness in songs. She's that rare rocker who can build a racket not out of dissonance but through euphonic intensity..."
Entertainment Weekly (5/8/98, p.75) - "...For a good chunk of FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL, she nestles her piano and melodies in the sinewy thump, junkyard percussion, and guitar noir of trip-hop. And what an ideal match: Amos' vocal quirks, trills, and orgasmic-soprano moans add personality to what can often be dull music..." - Rating: B+