Album Review: Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' Proves Worth the Wait
really got a big head start on us with this whole quarantining thing. Fans do not need to be reminded that it’s been eight years since her previous album, “The Idler Wheel…” . Anybody else who disappeared as a recording artist for that long would have been out flogging the catalog, something that is assuredly not her bag; even the intermittent cameos she used to do at L.A.’s Largo club halted as she retreated ever inward.
“Bedroom pop” has somehow become an accepted genre in recent years, and Apple’s album is the most sophisticated possible version of that: “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” was made largely at home, with the same core of three other musicians sharing production credit and doing virtually all of the playing.
But much of the rest of the album is concerned with variations on a theme: bullying. In the second number, an even more frantically played 6/8 workout called “Shameika,” Apple recalls a nervous childhood in which the mean girl of the title told her that she “had potential,” a strange mixed message that she took to heart somehow.
Even more interesting than some of the songs about men are the ones about women — specifically, her fascination with the ones who hooked up with her partner after her. She sometimes pairs thematically aligned songs together in the running order of the album, and “Newspaper” and “Ladies” are two psychologically savvy and self-searching numbers in a row in which Apple admits either a voyeuristic interest in or misplaced desire to rescue her ex-lover’s new beau .
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