Blog: Direct Current

Fiona Apple 's new "Every Single Night" is replete with all the usual precious stock-in-trade quirks that have made her forthcoming new June 19 album The Idlers Wheel ... such a hipster media frenzy: the minor chord mystery, the remarkably eccentric, quave-o-matic vocals and a careening theatrical melody that sounds like it's had maybe one too many on its way to the bridge. The indie scribes will duke it out over the "precious vs. pretentious" arguments about an artist whose quixotic, larger-than-life persona threatens to hijack the ability to approach her music simply for the music's sake. [...]

• Fiona Apple - Every Single Night