Blog: Direct Current

Fiona Apple - Finished almost two years ago, fourth album of careening, confessional emotional bloodletting from reclusive 34-year-old L.A. songwriter is as lean, taut and angular as her recent press imagery...more than 15 years after her bold debut Tidal , Apple remains an brilliant, eccentric pop oddity of the first magnitude...troubled, angry and sharp as razor, Wheel is a series of off-kilter peaks into the dark recesses of our favorite haunted soul // Release : The Idler Wheel ... (June 19, Epic/Sony) // Sounds like : Apple and co-producer/percussionist Charley Drayton [...]