Cougar writer Nicole offers her top ten albums for our Top albums of 2012 feature. Divine Fits -'A Thing Called Divine Fits' Slick, straight forward rock n' roll with a vaguely new wave vibe. This collaboration between Britt Daniel (Spoon) and Dan Boeckner (Handsome Furs) is too cool for school. Case in point, when delivering [...] The post Cougar Microbes Writers Picks 2012: Nicole appeared first on Cougar Microbes .
By The Spinning Platters Staff Every website has a Top XX albums of the year list. This one is ours, and there is nothing by The xx on it. I mean, I really like The xx's Coexist. There were just 20 records that came out this year that were better. Maybe you'll find something that [...]
[Playlist] The Best Albums of 2012
With 2012 drawing to a close, the DJs of WQHS give to you their top ten albums of the year. Check out the entire list after the jump. 10. Cat Power - Sun Four years after Jukebox and six years since her last original material on The Greatest, Chan Marshall returns with Cat Power in her long awaited ninth full-length album Sun . In what seems to be her most costly work yet, Marshall [...]
Well, here's the fourth part of Top 25 Albums of 2012 . We're so close to the top! By this time tomorrow you'll know all the songs and albums that I loved in 2012. Whew! I'm ready for a break. As I’ve said, I easily could have listed 50 releases, but I realized that half of those would have been albums that I only listen to when I’m in a particular mood. In other words, they’re not immediately accessible, and that to me knocks them down a notch. So, if you’re looking for 25 releases that you [...]
Fiona Apple’s re-emergence every half decade or so is a triumphant celebration for a niche community of devotees and rather an apathetic shrug for the rest of America, which assumes (wrongly) that she’s just a Lilith Fair throwback, trying to claw her way back into the limelight. I belong to the former group, as my parenthetical aside betrays. Apple is a brilliant songwriter. I know this to be true. I just feel guilty enjoying her music as much as I do. She’s clearly unwell, both in heart and mind (no matter what she says on the chat shows), and this [...]
Depois de protagonizar um dos maiores retornos musicais do ano com The Idler Wheel , a cantora Fiona Apple deve fazer a alegria dos fãs brasileiros, trazendo sua nova turnê ao país ainda em 2012. De acordo com a Popload , Fiona fará três shows por aqui na segunda quinzena de novembro: em Porto Alegre, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. Nos últimos meses a bela cantora fez uma apresentação poderosa no SXSW, lançou um dos álbuns mais aguardados do ano, e polemizou ao ser presa por porte de haxixe [...]
Il 13 settembre di trentacinque anni fa, a New York nasceva Fiona Apple . Abbiamo deciso di farle gli auguri di buon compleanno con una breve recensione di "The Idler Wheel" , il suo ultimo album uscito questa estate a giugno. Innanzi tutto il titolo integrale: "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do". Frase criptica che qualcuno ha anche provato a risolvere con un diagramma (...) e che suona più o meno come un misto tra la volontà [...]
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Por Pilar Renau Más allá del resultado final, un disco de Fiona Apple – sobretodo después de 7 años de silencio musical – siempre es bien recibido. La excentricidad no es ajena a Fiona y en este, su cuarto álbum, se ve ya desde el título. 23 palabras y 10 canciones donde el piano es el instrumento principal, dando como resultado un disco bien sensitivo e introspectivo. [...]
In the current climate of singer-songwriter musicianship, Fiona Apple is constantly heralded as a mad genius whose writing process seems almost like the fermentation of ideas. Her melodies are stringent and emotionally charged, and it continually excuses regular four-year gaps between records. Though her classic Extraordinary Machine may be her shining glory, The Idler Wheel... (or The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Chords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do ) will be held [...]
Fiona Apple's first album in seven years, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, weaves the fierce emotion, poetic lyrics and masterfully constructed compositions of her previous releases with a much more rugged recording style and strong splashes of [...]
Fiona Apple ’s long-awaited new release is undoubtedly one of her most interesting and beautiful contributions to the world of music. Regardless of the immediate accessibility of this album (it does take a bit of initiative to embrace fully, but once you give it a few listens and really allow it to sink in, it’s absolutely worth the time put in) this album is over all an exploration of natural sound, a masterpiece of ambience, a story spun with silken threads, and a lonely but perfunctory viewpoint. Apple has created another unique record; they are progressively growing more and more [...]
Io sono un buono, questo me lo riconoscono un po' tutti, che capisce un cazzo, coglione etc ma buono, questo sì e tendenzialmente non ho quasi mai una parola cattiva per nessuno. Mi ci impegno guarda, dico sempre "non fare ad altri ciò che non vorresti fosse fatto a te" e infatti io non vado in giro a cagare sugli zerbini degli altri (cit.). Si sa che una prefazione del genere regge un "ma", lo so io, lo sapete voi. MA. Mi incazzo come una bestia quando un artista che stimo profondamente, da qui la metto in [...]
Pain is pretty. 2012, Epic Records 9.4 / 10.0 Fiona Apple has been associated with a bad girl image for much of her career. There was that incident around the release of her first album, Tidal, where made the following statement at the MTV Movie Awards, “This world [...]
Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... By Russell Warfield Already, one of the most-quoted lines from Fiona Apple 's first new record in seven years is the succinctly put “I just want to feel everything”, taken from the album's opening track and first single 'Every Single Night'. It's widely quoted for good reason, being a pitch perfect introduction to and encapsulation of the absolutely fantastic The Idler Wheel... – a collection of sparse, loose and thrillingly alive songs built on Apple's multifaceted explorations of herself and her [...]
Fiona Apple is back after seven years, and she’s as possessed as ever. Apple’s previous (and masterful) album, Extraordinary Machine , was salvaged only when producer Mike Elizondo was brought in to let the songs breathe, making it less of a chore to actually hear Apple’s sultry voice. It’s no chore at all on The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do . Her naked vocals are backed by simple keyboard arrangements and hushful harmonies, [...]
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Despite its full unwieldy title, Fiona Apple ’s fourth album The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do is one of the most refined and focused albums to emerge in the sixteen years since Apple’s debut album Tidal . Opening beautifully, the emotionally strained (and slightly disturbing) ‘Every Single Night’ promises an album full of pain and anxiety. Commencing with some slow and simple notes, the track builds up to a spine-tingling release of jittering vocals and intensely captivating lyrics. [...]
Fiona Apple is one of those, seemingly mythical, artists who hasn't released a bad body of work in her entire career. Now, maybe that's due to her razor sharp deference to detail and craft, or maybe it's the six year hiatuses Apple tends to take between albums (or maybe one is the cause or the other). Whatever the case may be, the formula for greatness hasn't changed much for Fiona amidst the release of her her fourth LP in 16 years: Piano or acoustic guitar, backed by emotive, while sparse, percussion and vocal performances that aim directly for the soul. [...]
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