Tori Amos has released a new single, Gasoline Girls, ahead of her upcoming album In Times of Dragons, due May 1 via Universal/Fontana.
The track follows earlier releases Stronger Together and Shush, extending what Amos has framed as a continuous narrative running through the record. Gasoline Girls introduces a new group of characters into that arc, a collective that helps the album’s central figure move further away from a powerful husband and into something less defined and more confrontational.
Amos describes the song as a study in transition. “This is a metaphor for many different transformations,” she said, pointing to shifts in identity, belief, and the physical realities that shape a life over time. The language remains broad, but the imagery surrounding the song is more specific, positioning the Gasoline Girls as a visible, unified force within the album’s fictional landscape.
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That landscape carries through the full record. In Times of Dragons is structured as an allegorical journey across America, with Amos introducing characters along the way as the protagonist changes form, moving toward something capable of resisting the forces chasing her. It is a framework she has returned to at various points in her career, though here it is more explicitly tied to power and survival.
Amos has spent more than three decades working in that space between the personal and the symbolic, building a catalogue that rarely settles into one mode for long. Nine Grammy nominations and over 12 million albums sold sit behind this release, but the scale of the new project suggests she is still leaning into long-form ideas rather than tightening them.
The album arrives as Amos begins her largest European tour in over a decade, with dates already underway across the UK and mainland Europe. A 35-date U.S. run follows in July and August, including stops at venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado and the Beacon Theatre in New York.
Photo credit: Kasia Wozniak
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