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Listen: Tori Amos Shares 'Cloud Riders' From Upcoming Album

"Cloud Riders," the first single from Native Invader, paints troubled love as a tempestuous and erratic storm. Part swagger, part reflection, it both smolders and shimmers with Beatle-y guitars.

has always been a diviner with musical and spiritual roots deeply planted in the natural world, drawing both inspiration and metaphorical lessons from Mother Earth. In April,she called it an album that "looks to Nature and how, through resilience, she heals herself. The songs also wrestle with the question: 'What is our part in the destruction of our land, as well as ourselves, and in our relationships with each other?'"

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