Makes sense -- Pelly wrote a 33 1/3 book on The Raincoats.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
I'm adoring this already. So glad it has taken the drums-and-piano-in-conversation style of Idler Wheel and used Hot Knife as the jumping off point.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
i don't know if i'm comin across but i'm really trying
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
The Slits reference would work if they had made more songs like "Newtown" (their most Raincoats-y, so Tim otm). Is late Tom Waits too obvious to mention? I found Pelly's "no music has ever sounded like this" line a little silly (Is This Desire? and Medulla also come to mind; I listened to Horse Rotorvator for the first time the other day, etc.).
Anyway, "Criminal" is the only Apple song I've previously consciously heard, so this is pretty wild! I'm not sure it will quite turn out to be My Thing, but I can see why everyone is flipping over it. Even not paying full attention to the lyrics, some knife-like lines pop out.
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
Presumably it was the editor's call but referring to it as "Fetch" I found very jarring. Couldn't get Mean Girls out of my head, so in essence, your editor should stop trying to make "Fetch" happen.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
"No music has ever sounded like this" is not a good line to write in a review of anything I'll be honest.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Vinyl is available for preorder from her website. Includes immediate download. Looking forward to this.
― Cow_Art, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, April 17, 2020 6:25 AM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
Maybe my googling skills are rusty, but I'm having a hard time finding her website...
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
just on shameika and feeling likewise
― devvvine, Thursday, April 16, 2020 10:18 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
Ha, I don't know why I had a problem with it, but I had to google "fetch the bolt cutters vinyl" to get to a reddit forum which then had a link to her store.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
ok now here we are at relay, holy jeez
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:25 (four years ago) link
my display name is more relevant than i would've thought lol
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:26 (four years ago) link
sadly I will never buy the LP thanks to my weird aversion to 2xLP albums that run a hair over 50 minutes
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:27 (four years ago) link
Simon it's sonically irresponsible to press over 45 mins on a single record!! head to the audiophile thread for reeducation
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
audiophiles can suck it imho
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
that hurts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
two songs on a side I'd rather die
I feel like my only slight criticism after a few listens is I could have gone for a little less repetition on "Cosmonauts". but that's very nitpicky.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
First song is good, but kind of a conventional piano song for the most part? I guess I expected it to be weirder on first blush....ok now doing some dolphin noises
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
That's a false signal.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
was skeptical during the first track, and then every single song after that bowled me over, fiona cannot be dethroned
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Friday, 17 April 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, April 17, 2020 7:39 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i could listen to that chorus foreverrr
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
This is cool.... One thing that comes to mind is The Jungle Line off Hissing of Summer Lawns
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link
I love the super dense piano sound, the booming upright bass, and it's got some of the best clattering percussion since Tom Waits's Bone Machine. The drums sound like a full kit set up in a cramped bedroom. Plus barking dogs. I'm very into this on first listen, and there's a lot to come back to.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 17, 2020 10:02 AM (fifty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
agreed, but that song has never connected with me like every song here did almost immediately
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
I love the super dense piano sound, the booming upright bass, and it's got some of the best clattering percussion since Tom Waits's Bone Machine
I came back here to say that it definitely reminds me of mid-80s Waits in some parts which is A Good Thing
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
and early '80s solo Lindsey Buckingham.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
god the gut punch that bisects "For Her"
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link
kind of crazy how unfashionable Tom Waits has become, checked out a few reviews, none mention him, even though it's a pretty obvious reference point
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
it's the most conventional track here but still i want you to love me is deliriously beautiful
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
oh wow Sebastian Steinberg from Soul Coughing plays bass on this, that makes so much sense
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
agreed on the Tom Waits sound
it'll take a few spins for me to get the hang of this; I found it distracted/distracting on first listen (as I do Waits), but it seems worth further attention
― Joey Corona (Euler), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
When the album started I was like "Ah crap, this is some more girl-and-her-piano bullshit - I've been suckered again!" NOPE.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
This is frustrating. I would like to purchase this, but all I get upon googling is people talking about people talking about what they think of it.
I hate contemporary society.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.fionaapplestore.com/dept/featured?cp=107902_107930
For ease, since I'm not the only one that had problems finding it.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
i would beg to disagree but begging disagrees with me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
might have to cop that crewneck
― devvvine, Friday, 17 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
JFC finally found it only took thirty minutes
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 17 April 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
This album
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:07 (four years ago) link
The repetition in Cosmonauts is a necessity, it wouldn’t feel growing in intensity without it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
loving the No New York style guitar on 'On I Go'
― cajunsunday, Friday, 17 April 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
ICAMI she did a track by track thing for Vulture
https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
I am not normally a believer in identity-based arts criticism - once you put a piece of art out into the world, any member of the public has the right to comment on it - but I really want to read reviews of this album from women over 40.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link
"I hardly ever write a song about just one person, but there was one time that I wrote a song that was not a nice song, and it was about one person, and I felt the need to tell that one person and play them that song before it came out, and it went fine."
just gonna assume that she means "it went fine, for me" and that this other person melted immediately
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link
good thing i was born in 1975
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
“you don’t even know hurricane gloria!!!!”
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
As I said on the other P4k thread this album sounds like tUnE-yArDs and I'm here for it, personally
― we have no stan but to choice (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 17 April 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
there's a significant bounty on the first actually-good 'fetch the bolt cutters' pun display name i heard
― when I come out, can you introduce me as Jagger (imago), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:00 (four years ago) link
spare us the cutters
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link