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American Doll Posse comes off as an eccentric ploy for album sales to non-fans—and a favourite for Amos-addicts.

The retail album special package edition includes a number of perks to entice consumers to purchase rather than download. Along with the 23-song CD, bonus visual DVD, and pack of Amos-image postcards, a 34-page booklet explains the five different characters Amos personifies throughout the album. Tori, Pip, Clyde, Isabel, and Santa share the vocal duties on the diversified tracks, and each personality has a unique appearance and form of expression (something similar to what she did for the 2001 covers album Strange Little Girls).

American Doll Posse will be greatly appreciated by fans, but those unfamiliar with her work might not even sit through the first few songs. The use of Amos’s alter egos is an interesting idea, but it seems rehashed since Strange Little Girls was such a similar concept.