Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel, featuring the track “Werewolf”, is #3 on our Top 50 Albums of 2012.
"I laid in a bed of soil and they put snails all over me. I used to love to put snails on my arm— I have a bunch of pictures. I used to put half a watermelon out in my yard overnight and then go out there and take macro pictures of the snails sipping the watermelon. I would love to sit there and put them on my arm. It just helped me think. I really like snails a lot."
— Fiona Apple talks about her forthcoming video for “Every Single Night”, in which she will be covered in snails.
"Sometimes it’s good to grow a tough hide, but when I hear people say that they won’t get a dog because they had one when they were a kid and it died, or that they don’t want to fall in love because it hurts too much, I’m like, ‘fuck you.’ It pisses me off to think that we’re conditioned to push away bad feelings and to think that anything that’s uncomfortable is something to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it’s me filling my quota— it’s going to make my joy more intense later."
Fiona Apple talks to Carrie Battan in our latest feature interview. Illustration by Kareena Zerefos.
Fiona Apple’s “Every Single Night”, the first song released from The Idler Wheel, is a Best New Track.
"The sudden triumph of Fiona Apple’s return exists in the same cultural moment as people sharing photos of gay couples who’ve just been married, or female protesters (hilariously) trolling Rick Perry’s Facebook wall with questions about menstruation to protest his stance on reproductive health. It’s the thrill of voices dismissed as silly or excessive in the past now deriving power from the ordinary details of their everyday lives."
— Lindsay Zoladz writes about Fiona Apple’s welcomed comeback in our latest feature story, “Mind Is Your Might”.
Full report, including video of a new song, of Fiona Apple’s set last night in Austin. Photo by Carrie Battan.
Fiona Apple’s new album— her first in seven years— is called The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do. The record is due in June.
Fiona Apple is playing Pitchfork’s SXSW showcase at Austin’s Central Presbyterian Church on March 15.
