Tori Amos plans LP of 'winter songs'

Tori Amos has confirmed plans for the release of a collection of "winter songs" later this year.

The singer told The Quietus that the follow-up to her tenth album Abnormally Attracted To Sin is currently being mixed and should be available from November.

Amos said: "It's a mixture of variations on old melodies and ancient carols; but variations on those themes, not exactly as you'll have heard them from the Methodist church.

"It'll be slightly different, but you'll recognise some of them. Then there are new ones. So it's a merger of old and new, with full brass, harpsichord, and timpani and concert bass drums. It's the classical side of my musicianship being allowed to do her job."

She added: "It was a huge challenge and I'd like to think there’s been nothing quite like it; just because I am a minister's daughter and I was exposed to a lot of that stuff.

"But at the same time I felt like I wanted to bring in another side to this which is that before there was Christmas day, cultures were celebrating the rebirth of light in darkness during the winter season."