Fiona Apple has released Fetch The Bolt Cutters, her first album since 2012, and everyone is living for it.
Pitchfork has not rated an album at 10 in about a decade. Their review says:
Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound. No music has ever sounded quite like it. Apple recorded Fetch the Bolt Cutters both in and with her Venice Beach home, banging on its walls, stomping on its ground. Self-reliance is its rule, curiosity is its key. Fetch the Bolt Cutters seems to almost completely turn the volume down on music history, while it cranks up raw, real life—handclaps, chants, and other makeshift percussion, in harmony with space, echoes, whispers, screams, breathing, jokes, so-called mistakes, and dog barks. (At least five dogs are credited: Mercy, Maddie, Leo, Little, and Alfie.) All of this debris orbits around the core of Apple’s music: her voice, her piano, and most of all her words, which have always been her primary instrument. It creates a symphony of the everyday.
NPR’s All Songs Considered said:
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a monumental album shuddering with the kind of singular sound fans will be dissecting and obsessing over for years. They then included the opening track, “I Want You To Love Me“:
Here’s the album’s title track “Fetch the Bolt Cutters“:
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