Fetch the Bolt Cutters

This soulful, experimental work is the unintentionally perfect album for the COVID-19 era.

Fiona Apple’s latest album "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" is the powerful sound of an artist continuing to discover her own voice even 24 years after her first album ("Tidal"). Apple’s voice is as soulful and vigorous as ever in music perfect for our time: songs of female empowerment recorded largely at home in GarageBand, with a visceral sense of confinement as her dogs bark in several tracks. The cover art style perfectly matches the album: raw, DIY, and more than a little frantic and goofy. Each track displays Apple’s energy, piano prowess, biting wit, soaring poeticism, and self-assured creativity. Apple is an artist who can’t be easily compared to any other, but fans of music that is soulful, raw, and experimental are likely to love Apple’s latest offering.