Billboard says the 10-track album is "worth the seven-year wait." By Kelly Payton After a seven-year hiatus, Fiona Apple has released her fourth studio album on June 19. For a 10-track album, the ...

5. “Left Alone” – Manic depression in sonic form: the song’s tempo alternates between hyper-speed and tortuously drawn-out, and Fiona’s vocal range is equally all over the place. Scat drumming ...

Fiona Apple’s first release in seven years, the obnoxious-yet-unsurprisingly titled “The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever ...

A Fiona Apple record is a study in meticulousness and mayhem. The meticulousness is in the music – the rigorous art-pop constructions that mark Apple as an heir to songwriting sophisticates like ...

Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on Email Share on Bluesky It's by no means an easy listen, even disconcerting at times. The lead single "Every Single Night" is a challenge compared to some of ...

It’s hard to imagine that Fiona Apple could fail us now. Sure, she strings us along — the half-dozen years we’ve waited since her last record, Extraordinary Machine, being roughly equivalent to a ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. You learn a lot about Fiona Apple by what she chooses to reveal in the ...

As the full title of Fiona Apple's fourth album implies, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do is a challenging ...