Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Deemed an instant masterpiece and even
Apple’s best work of her career by many
critics, Fetch The Bolt Cutters features a raw
and percussive sound, including looped
sections and sudden tempo changes. The
New York City-born singer-songwriter
recorded her fifth album herself in her Los
Angeles home.
FIVE FACTS:
- Apple has identified the album’s main
lyrical theme as “not being afraid to speak”. - The album’s title is a quote from the British-
Irish crime drama television series The Fall. - Jenn Pelly, writing for Pitchfork, has
described the album as “a wild symphony of
the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No
music has ever sounded quite like it.” - Meanwhile, USA Today’s Patrick Ryan
observed that Fetch The Bolt Cutters
“simmers with defiance, dark wit and
quiet rage”. - Fetch The Bolt Cutters is the most highly
acclaimed original album in the history
of the Metacritic website, which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from
mainstream critics.