Name: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Brand: Fiona Apple

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

19439774432

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Discogs ID

EPIC977443.2

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-07-17

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sony

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

194397744323

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Artist

Fiona Apple

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

EPIC

Albums of The Year 2020

Essential

The unhurried artist’s first studio album in eight years is astonishing, intimate and demonstrates a refusal to be silenced. The Apple of 2020 is astonishing; as if she has returned to reinvent sound – the rhythms pleasing, but counter, and unusual. On the title track she half-sings over a makeshift orchestra of kitchen implements, dog bark and cat yowl. The beat on Kick Me Under the Table has a seething back-and-forth pace; the extraordinary For Her beds double Dutch skipping rope rhythms beneath a chorus of female voices.

It’s striking how intimate Apple’s voice sounds here – half-conversational, half-self-mutters, allowing every scuff, breath and feral yelp. She is at her most familiar on Ladies, hollering over a soulful backdrop, chewing her own voice like tobacco, then letting it take sweet, sudden flight.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters is full of visceral, jittery, wonderfully imperfect performances that make the album feel like a dreamlike concert at Largo. It features contributions from Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg, and Amy Aileen Wood.

Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Music US