fiona apple - fetch the bolt cutters (2020)

and early '80s solo Lindsey Buckingham.

god the gut punch that bisects "For Her"

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

it's the most conventional track here but still i want you to love me is deliriously beautiful

oh wow Sebastian Steinberg from Soul Coughing plays bass on this, that makes so much sense

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

it's the most conventional track here but still i want you to love me is deliriously beautiful

When the album started I was like "Ah crap, this is some more girl-and-her-piano bullshit - I've been suckered again!" NOPE.

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.

https://www.fionaapplestore.com/dept/featured?cp=107902_107930

For ease, since I'm not the only one that had problems finding it.

i would beg to disagree but begging disagrees with me

might have to cop that crewneck

JFC finally found it only took thirty minutes

This album

The repetition in Cosmonauts is a necessity, it wouldn’t feel growing in intensity without it.

loving the No New York style guitar on 'On I Go'

ICAMI she did a track by track thing for Vulture

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-songs.html

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.

"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

good thing i was born in 1975

“you don’t even know hurricane gloria!!!!”

As I said on the other P4k thread this album sounds like tUnE-yArDs and I'm here for it, personally

there's a significant bounty on the first actually-good 'fetch the bolt cutters' pun display name i heard

spare us the cutters

this is great. "Ladies" has a bit of a Cat Power swagger.

i am reminded of suzanne vega's 99.9F°

ladies ladies ladies ladies

This whole album is incredible, but right now Ladies is the one.

for me, it's been "Newspaper" and "For Her"

just cranking the whole discography at this point, best artist of my generation

imagine making a record better than when the pawn????? and i think she's done it twice now

You'll laugh, but When the Pawn.. is the only album I haven't heard.

alfred

production-wise when the pawn is a steely dan album of the '90s

a prime candidate for my Harvest Rule: a major album by a major artist I haven't heard.

When The Pawn now and forever but this album is fucking amazing

Hey this is really good.

I didn't expect it to be so rhythm-focused. I said it after the last album, but this just reinforces it: she's trying to make her own Hounds of Love.

And whoever said Suzanne Vega is also spot on.

i continue to be so happy this album exists

also alfred you need to listen to when the pawn right fucking now!!!!! it'll crush you!!!!!!

it's like imo in the constellation of your tastes that is a missing star, you gotta hear it

I will agree that When the Pawn is a total winner.

And I have to believe the her writing and arranging process is exceptionally intricate. She's become quite a masterful writer.

yeah this album is exceptional. it's unhinged and mad at times, in a way that Brian Wilson's 70's output was mad.

Haven't heard her since the 90s, but so many different people were flipping over this today now I'm interested. Descriptions and references in this thread have me excited--"Jungle Line," 80s Tom Waits...

My only issue with this album is there is going to be absolutely no suspense when it comes to the winner of our end of year album poll next January.

When The Pawn is still my favourite with The Way Things Are being my favourite song of hers.

yeah this album is exceptional. it's unhinged and mad at times, in a way that Brian Wilson's 70's output was mad.

― akm, Friday, April 17, 2020

Not the defense I needed lol

Thanks, Brad. I will. I own the rest.

"heavy balloon" is a really sick r&b song about depression

I was working at a music store when The Pawn came out. I didn’t know anything about Fiona Apple and assumed she was boring angsty teeny pop. A promo of Pawn landed in my lap and I put it on in the car driving home from work and it blew me away. The production, the lyrics, her voice. Just the sound of the album is amazing, everything else is gravy.

Kept up with her since then, but I’ve never heard the first album.

tidal's great, nothing but hits in her catalog

"the first taste" and "never is a promise," right in a row, is some '90s-ass sequencing but i love it