Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters

The idea that Fiona Apple’s album was a music event of profound proportions was enhanced by the excellent New Yorker portrait that came out a few weeks prior to its release. The article was digested and dissected, and the only unfortunate aspect occurred when the part of the feature that most publications adjudged to be of particular interest concerned Apple only in relation to two of her famous ex-partners. Her’s is a career that has been mostly defined by the male gaze and it would do well to let that die because – simply put – Apple is an American artist of the highest quality.