Her first studio album since 2021’s 'Ocean to Ocean' arrives May 1, framing the present moment as mythic battle.
, due out May 1 via Universal/Fontana. True to form, it’s not a quiet return: the record arrives framed as a sweeping, politically charged allegory, complete with dragons, tyrants, and a familiar Amos-ian fusion of the mythic and the painfully real.
Ocean to Ocean, the soundtrack to her New York Times-bestselling children’s book of the same name, which earned a Grammy nomination in 2025. That project underscored her ongoing interest in mythmaking and storytelling—an impulse that now returns, sharpened and politicized, in her new studio work.as “a metaphorical story about the fight for Democracy over Tyranny,” positioning the album as a response to what she calls the real-time erosion of democratic structures in the U.S. The project continues her decades-long practice of turning personal, political, and spiritual upheaval into narrative song cycles—less topical commentary than symbolic confrontation. The album’s newly unveiled cover art leans into that sense of ritual and timelessness. Created in collaboration with photographer Kasia Wozniak and stylist Karen Binns, the images were produced using a vintage RA-4 photographic process, with direct paper positives shot on a large-format camera. The result is tactile and deliberate, mirroring the album’s themes of endurance, resistance, and transformation.with a 35-date U.S. summer tour beginning in July, with stops in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Austin, Philadelphia, and a headlining performance at Red Rocks, among others. She’ll be joined once again by longtime collaborators Jon Evans and Ash Soan , along with backing vocalists Liv Gibson, Deni Hlavinka, and Hadley Kennary. An exclusive artist pre-sale begins January 21 at 10 a.m. local time via toriamos.com, followed by a general on-sale January 23.Tori and the MusesIn Times of Dragons , Amos once again reaches for myth not as escape, but as a way of naming the moment—reminding us that when the language of politics fails, symbolism still knows how to bite.
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