Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Fiona Apple is all about control: gaining, losing, regaining, relinquishing, feigning, being in and totally and completely out of it. Each of her previous albums has seen at least one pivotal battle of control: agency over her own 20-year-old body in the music video for "Criminal" , reclaiming her identity after a particularly unflattering profile in a magazine by writing a 90-word poem as her album title , and not-so-gracefully deciding who would produce her third LP, Extraordinary Machine. On the opening track of her fourth LP, [...]