In Times Of Dragons

Tori Amos’s In Times of Dragons is a dark, ambitious art-pop album that uses fantasy and mythic imagery to explore political fear, resistance, and emotional survival. The record feels theatrical and stormy, built around Amos’s expressive piano, layered arrangements, and vocals that shift between tenderness, anger, and weary resolve. Its “dragons” and “lizard demons” imagery gives the album a symbolic, almost storybook quality, but underneath the metaphor is a sharp concern with power, tyranny, and the fragility of democracy.

Musically, the album is moody and expansive, moving through tense piano-driven pieces, atmospheric textures, and more dramatic, progressive passages. Songs such as “Shush,” “In Times of Dragons,” “Gasoline Girls,” “Blue Lotus,” and “23 Peaks” give the project a sense of unease, defiance, and emotional depth. Overall, In Times of Dragons presents Amos in a bold, politically charged mode, combining her familiar intimacy with a larger, more mythological vision of struggle and endurance.