First Listen: New Releases for 17 April
Artist : Fiona Apple Album : Fetch the Bolt Cutters Quick Description : New album from the alt-singer-songwriter. Why You Should Listen : A lot of people are arguing that this may be the best album of the year. Overall Thoughts : Internet chatter this weekend focused a lot on Pitchfork's perfect score for this album, Apple's first since 2012. Apple doesn't produce new music very often, and she is very much an artist's artist with everything that goes along with that. This album? It's definitely an achievement, probably her best since Extraordinary Machine , and it's 100% the album from this week that I will be going back to first. Best of the year? A transcendent experience? That remains to be seen, but this is an album with a lot of layers and is absolutely worth listening to whether you're a fan or not. It's rare, in 2020, for an album to not only be the topic of conversation but also be worthy of it, and Fetch the Bolt Cutters ultimately ...