full album stream yay!
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=154422085&m=154351745
― uberweiss, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this is marvelous.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
who is drumming on this record
i would like to give it up for that drummer
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 11 June 2012 05:51 (eleven years ago) link
in the past few years I've seen her live a bunch of times and she's just so fuckin talented, I'm not even a fan of her recorded material or anything it's just like her shit's so undeniable when you see her idk
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 11 June 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
BradNelson, it's Charley Drayton, who co-produced the album with her.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 10:38 (eleven years ago) link
yesyesyesyesyes this album
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
the rounds on "hot knife" i just sat there looking at my speakers going OMGOMG silently to myself
the LYRICS
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
the ARRANGEMENTS
This is great. "Hot Knife" is crazy good, though hard to pick a favorite so far.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Monday, 11 June 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
remember when we argued on the concept of regret?you were an expert even then but not me, not yetnow all you gotta do's remind me that we met
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Monday, 11 June 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I don't think anyone was expecting Hot Knife at all.
― Turangalila, Monday, 11 June 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
Judging by "Hot Knife" and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvO31CyFlTI
Fiona and her sister should together more often.
This album is tremendous.
― all the other twinks with their fucked up dicks (billy), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
LOL
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/270904_10151792056115018_604816896_n.jpg
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
That's ...ironic?
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha
i think characterising apple's lyrics as "bottomless pit of despair" might be even worse though. do they not hear her humour?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
oh look we're back to using adverbs like "bewitchingly" to describe woman piano music
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
this album isn't very bewitching, it's odd and sparse and more unvarnished than anything she's done before
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
I think I like it less now. But Hot Knife is still amazing and my favorite thing she's done in years.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I never expected those bouncy 1920s jazz vocal harmonies after some of the hyper-dissonant stuff that came earlier in the record. Also, with different production, it could be a Destiny's Child song.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
huh
maybe I should have paid more attention to the rest of Fiona Apple's career
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
ok wow "hot knife"
"he makes my heart a cinemascope"!!
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
That's a great line!
He makes my heart a cinemascope screen showing a dancing bird of paradise
...or something.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
ehhhh ilm has never been into young female singer-songwriters though, has it
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, April 23, 2012 10:22 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
where would women in music be without their sister lex taking care of them?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
xp "he excites me! must be like the genesis of rhythm" is an amazing line as well
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
the arrangements on this are kind of like if she took her ornate rococo brion-era arrangements and took 3/4 of the stuff out but left the essential heartbeat in
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
also how ridiculous that an album with "hot knife" as its most immediately talked-about song is getting these "OH SHE'S SO MISERABLE" reviews
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
I think for 'Bottomless pit of despair' read 'The most self obsessed person ever to make music...I mean nobody's wretched love life is that interesting....
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
musician formerly in bad relationship uses experience as creative fodder, film at 11
― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh go90s flashbacks! the "all these wretched female singer-songwriters are so self-absorbed and they remind me of that crazy girl i dated once" line is pretty much the reason i rejected the music press from an early age
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Anybody...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
no. you're alone, all alone, sonnyboy.
― Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
great album. kind of aggressively weird, I haven't heard this many jazz piano chords on a pop album ever.
― akm, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Really? I find her melodies dull and undistinguished for the first time. She's singing well though (e.g. the last two tracks). I've played it pretty much non-stop since last Thursday.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
i've listened to this twice. not sure what to make of it yet
right now, i'm thinking it emphasizes rhythm too much, sometimes at the expense of melody.
really digging the warmth/brightness of anything we want, though
― buh, Monday, 18 June 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
so far "Anything We Want," "Werewolf," and "Periphery" are the standouts
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 June 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i'd agree with those three, and add every single night
i want to like hot knife, but those layered vocals kind of annoy me
― buh, Monday, 18 June 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Those layered vocals are my favorite thing about that song.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
They aren't actually layered, though. Harmonies were recorded live with her sister.
― Turangalila, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
just now listening to the NPR stream, this is gorgeous -- i liked When the Pawn just fine, didn't care for Machine, but my favorite's always been the debut and Idler Wheel steps back to the less cluttered sound of that album -- but with 1,000% the songwriting chops
― ilxor, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i've decided this is great. i really love the rawness of her voice in certain parts of daredevil and regret. the little chant at the end of periphery makes me happy
― buh, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
this "interview" is pretty out there
http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/hiding-out-with-fiona-apple-musical-hermit.html
We got very stoned. We talked about a man who wore upside-down glasses and whose brain, within a few days, adjusted to perceive them as right-side up. She showed me a sample of the secret language she’s been speaking — and sometimes singing — since she was a child, a cross between scatting and talking in tongues.
...
We drank and smoked more. Coming back from the bathroom, she had turned off the lights and turned on a little machine that projected a million green stars orbiting across the whole space of the ceiling. I lay on the floor, spinning, watching them spin. She sat at her desk, not moving much, mostly staring into the screen that bounced a pale glow across her face.
It was late. The music had stopped. I asked her, I don’t entirely know why, to ask me something. She asked me about one of the most intimate experiences of my life. I told her the truth.
I was now standing in the middle of the room; I felt very stupid. Despite my protests, she came over and put her arms around me. We stood there for a while, hugging. She said, and I could hear her tongue clicking in her mouth:
Dan. I’m so sorry.
― dmr, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
love this album, love the production, love the sequencing -- the sad songs leading up to the burst of joy at the end. i like a lot of songs off her other albums, but i tend to pick and choose which ones to listen to in isolation. this feels like a full and complete package to me.
― the bibles fake lol don't trust a book (reddening), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
yes I do too. This weekend it snuck its claws into me.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Seconded re: the article mentioned above. Read it today. She's apparently fond of the weed and the whole article had a surreal feel to it, almost as if she and the writer were doing a performance art piece. It really made me want to hear this record thoug, so there's that.
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't like it for the first few listens, but now I can't stop playing it, especially "Hot Knife" (best on the album), "Werewolf," "Anything We Want," and "Valentine." Too much shrieking and hollering on "Regret," though.
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's quite a brave album how she just puts her vocals and poetry out there to be scrutinised -- not concealed behind many embellishments. a lot of her observations misfire, but some strike like a dagger. and both these elements are propped by really jagged piano chords that make everything she sings sound vulnerable and on edge. my favourite so far is "left alone" i think, which gives itself up 100% to the dark side and is suspended in one big, long swell of riled emotion. i'm sure she's alienated a lot of people with this album, but those people are probably not really willing to buy into what she's trying to put out there, so...
― charlie h, Saturday, 30 June 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
God, 'Anything We Want' is just magical, isn't it?
― Austin, Saturday, 30 June 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Never been a big fan of hers, but damn, what an album. Really loving the vocals on "Regret" and of course "Hot Knife," but it seems like there's something unique about all the songs that make this so solid. Not sure why it struck such a chord, but it did.
― slagterm, Sunday, 1 July 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sure she'll drop a new record, but the gaps are getting wider between each one. considering how much of her soul she puts into each one, i can't really blame her for not wanting to go through that experience more than once or twice a decade.
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:54 (five years ago) link
otm
seeing her live twice was amazing, she is such a great performer and the audience loves her infinitely.
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
I was actually just talking about how good this album is the other day
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
her poetry is super on point on this one (is on all of them obviously) and i admire how the record uses field recordings and avant-garde methods to create such raw, powerful songs
― Ross, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
'Regret' is a raging blast furnace that reduces me to ash, every time.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 16:09 (five years ago) link
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link
"based on articles it seems she is content to live in her trailer property and smoke hash all day ymmv"
who can blame her
― akm, Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
not me
sounds ideal
― Ross, Thursday, 16 August 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
i had a very bad week/month which had a lot to do with trying to reconnect with an ex and i think i should've been listening to this album the whole time
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
Good idea
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
even the "fuck you you complete asshole" songs on this one are so nuanced
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Much of the album seems to be Fiona waving the listener away from the false door labelled "closure" and toward the real door labelled "get the fuck out"
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:16 (five years ago) link
I spent August 2012 listening to this album in a loop
― I like queer. You like queer, senator? (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:31 (five years ago) link
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, November 30, 2018 4:16 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nothin wrong when a song ends in a minor key
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
my ills are reticulatemy woes are granularthe ants weigh more than the elephants
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 30 November 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link