New Fiona Apple Album Spring 2011

[LemonMelon]

An early review for this thing:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-i...you-more-than-ropes-will-ever-do-mw0002332951

4.5/5

 

[mobvok]

Anything We Want is really great.

 

[mobvok]

This is a long, and enormously entertaining profile from NYMag. It reads like the writer was dispatched to do a generic promotional interview with Fiona, and then fell down a rabbit hole.

There's a lot in her brain.

 

[beegee]

Several new tour dates added this morning:

06/19 – Ithaca, NY @ State Theatre
06/20 – Baltimore, MD @ Lyric Opera House
06/22 – Mashantucket, CT @ MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods
06/23 – Holyoke, MA @ Mountain Park
06/24 – New York, NY @ Governors Ball Music Festival
06/26 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre
06/27 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre
06/29 – Danbury, CT @ Ives Concert Park
06/30 – Boston, MA @ Citi Performing Arts Center
07/01 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
07/03 – Montreal, QC @ Olympia Theatre
07/04 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
07/06 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Cain Park
07/07 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore
07/10 – Chicago, IL @ Chicago Theatre
07/11 - Indianapolis, IN @ Murat Theatre
07/13 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
07/14 – St. Louis, MO @ Peabody Opera House
07/16 – Minneapolis, MN @ Orpheum Theatre
07/17 – Kansas City, MO @ The Midland at AMC
07/20 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
07/21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kingsbury Hall
07/24 – Vancouver, BC @ Orpheum
07/25 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
07/26 - Portland, OR @ Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
07/28 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
07/29 – Hollywood, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
09/09 – San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium
09/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield Theatre
09/12 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Santa Barbara Bowl
09/14 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
09/15 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
09/16 – Oceanside, CA @ Oceanside Pier Auditorium
09/18 – Mesa, AZ @ Ikeda Theater
09/20 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater
09/22 – Thackerville, OK @ Winstar Casino
09/24 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
09/26 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
09/27 – Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center
09/29 – Clearwater, FL @ Ruth Eckerd Hall
09/30 – Miami Beach, FL @ The Fillmore
10/01 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
10/03 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle
10/05 – Louisville, KY @ Palace Theatre
10/06 – Cincinnati, OH @ Aronoff Center
10/07 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
10/09 – Buffalo, NY @ Kleinhans Music Hall
10/11 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE

 

[Imperor]

Same night as the Beach House/Walkmen show I'm already seeing. What a bummer.

 

[bollox]

This is a long, and enormously entertaining profile from NYMag. It reads like the writer was dispatched to do a generic promotional interview with Fiona, and then fell down a rabbit hole.

There's a lot in her brain.

I hate writers who brag about getting fucked up with their interview subjects.

Also can't believe that 15 years later, people are portraying her VMAs temper tantrum as anything other than an embarrassing teenage hissy fit.

 

[lazarus]

"Her eyes were huge and green, like mint chocolate chip when it melts.'

Pretty much want to sock this guy in the jaw already.

 

[lazarus]

You'd think a text message sent to the writer at 1:30am would be "off the record".

 

[LemonMelon]

The Idler Wheel has a 93 on metacritic.

It deserves every point.

 

[lazarus]

I was just about to blind buy this on iTunes, and then decided I'll probably buy the physical copy. I'm guessing that the album artwork is going to be a lot of her own hand-drawn stuff and very personal.

A rarity these days; might as well indulge while it lasts.

 

[cobl04]

Who the fuck would say the word "bifurcated"?

I'm always amazed at these interviews. How do they remember all these little asides that weren't recorded?

I'm going to listen to this album.

 

[Danny Boy]

Who the fuck would say the word "bifurcated"?

An anatomist?

 

[mobvok]

Well, the guy is a writer.

He's too familiar with words, that one!

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Anything We Want is really great.

Yeah, I really liked her performance of this song on Fallon last night. It's the only thing I've heard from the album so far, though. I'm sure I'll give it a full listen at some point.

 

[BVS]

09/20 – Austin, TX @ Austin City Limits Live at Moody Theater

 

[cobl04]

BVS, do you and Imperor hang out?

 

[BVS]

BVS, do you and Imperor hang out?

I don't associate with Maverick fans.

 

[Imperor]

He's just playing coy, Cobbler. We saw Jimmy Buffett at the very same theater just a few weeks go. BVS is a closet parrothead.

 

[LemonMelon]

Finally paid close attention to the lyrics of Anything We Want. I'm willing to call it my favorite on the album now. It's like Wouldn't It Be Nice injected with realism.

Werewolf and Daredevil are two others that really get me going, but there are more than those besides.

 

[corianderstem]

One listen so far, and I liked it a lot.

 

[lazarus]

Finally paid close attention to the lyrics of Anything We Want. I'm willing to call it my favorite on the album now. It's like Wouldn't It Be Nice injected with realism.

The album finishes STRONG. And I would have loved Hot Knife anyway, but reading about how her and her sister did those vocals gives me an extra appreciation. Brilliant.

 

[LemonMelon]

The album finishes STRONG. And I would have loved Hot Knife anyway, but reading about how her and her sister did those vocals gives me an extra appreciation. Brilliant.

I almost wish Hot Knife were the opener; it gets me all fired up and, then yeah, that's it. I can imagine Hot Knife into Daredevil being a badass start to the album.

But then I like it as a closer because I immediately want to play the album over again.

 

[Danny Boy]

And I would have loved Hot Knife anyway, but reading about how her and her sister did those vocals gives me an extra appreciation.

Details?

I just assumed it was overdubs.

 

[LemonMelon]

I assume he's referring to this, from the article/journalistic abomination posted a page back:

I wanted to know about “Hot Knife,” the album’s last track. They both smiled. Though, like all her songs, it had come in a moment of total dissociation, its roots were probably in a Bach concert she’d seen in New York, and the Supremes song “Where Did Our Love Go?,” the place where two lines of music “crack together,” which had always given her “huge satisfaction.” Charley — whose genius as a producer, it seemed, was to fade away — had given her the mallets to softly strike the rhythm on the timpani. He’d said, “You need to say something on the piano,” so she made a waving, malevolent line in the background. And then there were the voices: hers and, later, in an incredible melodic round, her sister Maude’s. There was no looping or Auto-Tune; for hours they’d stood at the same microphone, weaving their voices in what she called “the most intimate moment of our lives together.”

 

[lazarus]

Yep.

And LM, I see what you're saying, but for an album that can be heavy emotionally/psychologically, I actually prefer that it ends on something lighthearted, with a vibe of hopeful infatuation. Especially considering how most listeners of this artist are "rooting" for her happiness.

And as you said, it makes you want to begin the album again.

 

[bollox]

I assumed it was overdubs too . . .

To paraphrase an Atease post (I know, I know), Hot Knife is 'what TuneYards would sound like if she was good.' I can't say I disagree with that statement.

 

[beegee]

Her sister sings sometimes at the Algonquin in NYC, I went to see her once.

Also, no song has ever filled me with more delirious joy than Hot Knife.

 

[Fernando-]

I got my copy today!

 

[LemonMelon]

No news in this bump, I'm just wondering if this album has grown on you guys. Me, I'm head over heels in love with it. I'm having a similar situation with Fiona that I had with Kanye when MBDTF came out; I went in with one album as an undisputed favorite (in Fiona's case, When the Pawn) and now I'm not sure at all. I realize it's not an album for everyone, but Idler Wheel is so intimate and honest. It's up there with Plastic Ono Band. To me, it represents everything the singer-songwriter genre is meant to at its best.

At Barnes and Noble, they have a Fiona Apple display with all of her albums, and when I saw it, I was amazed by her consistency. She really is one of my favorite artists.

 

[Pearl]

I'm going to see her in October!