Tori Amos, two decades ago’s leading songstresses, returns whence she has been with a new album for the Tori cult and hopefully for the rest of us out there, as well. Night Of Hunters, her first record since 2009′s Abnormally Attracted to Sin, is due out this September, and will have a markedly classical thrust to it.

“I have used the structure of a classical song cycle to tell an ongoing, modern story,” Amos says. “The protagonist is a woman who finds herself in the dying embers of a relationship. In the course of one night she goes through an initiation of sorts that leads her to reinvent herself allowing the listener to follow her on a journey to explore complex musical and emotional subject matter.” All this sounds very much like a rock opera, so we can only hope for some good interstitial spoken-word acting scenes.

No exact date is announced for the album’s release, but Tori will set out on a European tour in the end of September in support of Night Of Hunters. Check out the tour dates at her website.