
Like her three previous efforts, Fiona Apple 's new album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do , lives, breathes and soars on the strength of her voice and her words. Don't be intimidated by the long-windedness of the title (if you know what an idler-wheel does, you'll get it): Apple is less impenetrable here than ever before. Over the course of 10 songs -- 42 minutes and 39 seconds -- her emotions are complicated, but her lyrics are [...]