finally, Fiona Apple songs I can put on a workout playlist
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Thursday, 16 April 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
this album is fucking great and i got to review it
― maura, Thursday, 16 April 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
and it's a damn fine review
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 April 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
damn this is good. thanks y'all for putting me on to this.
― davey, Thursday, 16 April 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
thanks alfred :)
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 00:04 (four years ago) link
Feels like 2011 wasn't that long ago! So she has a rate of a new album every 6/8 years.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 03:46 (four years ago) link
holy shit this record
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 17 April 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link
10.
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 April 2020 05:08 (four years ago) link
The overall sound is interesting, sounds like the 21st century version of the lo-fi, diy album that doesn’t suck.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:09 (four years ago) link
As usual the best part is how percussive Fiona Apple loves her arrangements.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:10 (four years ago) link
haven't heard it but Pitchfork giving a Fiona Apple album a 10 in 2020 is something I can get behind
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:13 (four years ago) link
This also has her most manic sounding moments of all time, this is a good sign btw.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:13 (four years ago) link
10 on p4k
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:16 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:17 (four years ago) link
Maura read your review earlier, great stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:18 (four years ago) link
it's very good but i wouldn't give it a perfect score yet. p4k has given far worse albums a 10 in the past though so if something's going to get put on a weird pedestal i'd much rather have it be this
― ufo, Friday, 17 April 2020 05:18 (four years ago) link
thank you ums <3
― maura, Friday, 17 April 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link
I like both maura’s and p4k reviews, they pick on different aspects on why this album has the potential of being an early contender for AOTY, great release date too imho. Right place, right moment sort of album.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:23 (four years ago) link
in one of the videos where she answer fans questions, one of them asks her who some of her favorite musicians are, and the 3 she names are Miriam Makeba, Kate Bush, and Joan Armatrading. I feel like this provides all the context you'd need for the world this music exists in.
anyway, Fiona is my actual hero and she has never sounded more like herself. so grateful for her.
― winters (josh), Friday, 17 April 2020 05:32 (four years ago) link
Great review Maura!
And yes I agree that both reviews (i.e. Maura's and Pitchfork's) are good. This is one of those rich, dense but inviting albums that I expect will inspire a lot of good writing.
The Pitchfork review references the Slits which makes sense to me but the other act I hear a simpatico with (perhaps because I have been listening to them a lot recently) is The Raincoats (as well as early Veda Hille as mentioned upthread).
― Tim F, Friday, 17 April 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
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
(although a bit surprising that she was a public figure but nobody put the pieces together before now?)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 20 November 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
beautiful story, glad they were able to reconnect.
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Friday, 20 November 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
This fixes all the issues I had with "Shameika"
― DJP, Friday, 20 November 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link
ayo real talk: if you don't like this album, how does it feel to be objectively wrong?
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Sunday, 26 March 2023 20:45 (one year ago) link
this album is metal as fuck, in that it sounds like it was screwed together at a workbench
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson)
There’s also a seething rage through the whole thing - even in the “sweet” ballads such as cosmonauts - that makes it sound heavier than most metal albums I’ve heard. I haven’t heard this album a lot because it feels like a bad influence to me. Whenever I truly connect with it, it makes me want to burn the world to the ground.
It reminds me of Rain Dogs in that sense but this one feels more wore down and old and angrier.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2023 05:05 (five months ago) link
Such a landmark album. I can’t listen very often because it’s too real and can’t be backgrounded. I don’t even know how to say this and I feel sure it will sound weird or patronising or just off somehow, but - I gave this album to my ex wife as a gift, because I knew she had a lot of unexpressed anger about me leaving, and I wanted her to know that I understood that and respected it. She loves the record fwiw.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 5 November 2023 12:27 (five months ago) link
Did she not do any live performances at all? This album sounds like it could be pretty good live but I don’t see evidence of her doing any live performance after 2017.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:04 (five months ago) link
All I could find is her performing three songs for the New Yorker festival.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:06 (five months ago) link
it released during covid and she hasn't toured since, though she said in an interview at the time that she wanted to tour once things opened up again. last year she said she still really wants to tour again but her mental health really isn't up to it right now.
she played "ladies" and "i want you to love me" on her 2013 tour with blake mills though
― ufo, Monday, 6 November 2023 00:17 (five months ago) link