Pop stans launching entire Twitter putsches over a new release from their chosen idols are nothing new. Hell hath no fury like a Barb scorned. BTS Army will take over any and all trending search terms. But /r/indieheads, and Fiona Apple fans, specifically (what do we call them? Idler Wheels?) are operating on a whole […]

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Fetch the Bolt Cutters is like nothing Fiona Apple has done before, but the album is still recognizable as something only she could create. It’s purposefully unvarnished, a raw export from the inside of her brain: Her voice stretches and loops, morphing into Vipassana chants and spooky, surreal yelps; in the middle of one song, […]

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Fiona Apple FaceTimes me on a recent Friday afternoon from a bright-pink futon inside her Venice Beach home, her hair in a long braid, wearing giant headphones, a cozy green sweatshirt, and no makeup. The first thing she says is that she’s nervous. ā€œI’m like, Oh, shit,ā€ she says, laughing. Her nerves are understandable. Apple, […]

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Film Twitter may keep vintage Paul Thomas Anderson alive by reposting that one grainy video of him every few weeks, but Fiona Apple remembers a different P.T.A. In a new interview with Apple, The New Yorker writes that Anderson was ā€œcoldly critical, contemptuousā€ during their relationship. Apple and Anderson started dating in 1997. They collaborated […]

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Legends supporting legends is simply what we love to see. Fiona Apple revealed to the The New Yorker that her highly anticipated upcoming album is named after another ’90s icon, Gillian Anderson. The name of her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, isn’t an X-Files quote, though (or from the actress’s more recent turn in […]

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I first spoke with Fiona Apple back in September, after she spontaneously emailed me and gave her first interview in seven years. She was in the midst of working on a new album, her first since 2012’s The Idler Wheel, and had quite happily become the sort of homebody who rarely left her house except […]

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