rekindled love

Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do is one of those holy-shit-albums that comes around once in an artist's career. It's beautiful, raw, brutally honest, minimalist. Her voice has such a presence. It cracks in all the right places. It's from the gut and that's where it hits me.



I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead
but I admit that I provided a full moon
and I could liken you to a shark the way you bit off my head
but then again I was waving around a bleeding open wound

Fiona was my favorite musical artist in 1997, which was a long long time ago. Tidal is a great debut album and I stand by it still. It's a good coming-of-age album -- an album you easily love as a thirteen-year-old girl -- and once in awhile in your adult life you might revive it, not out of some dumb nostalgic desire to relive a sliver of your youth but because it's actually good.

Her subsequent albums are pretty good, too. They have their moments. But not like this. My mind is blown.

a favorite

@ about 4:05.

"A god steps down from the mountain. He walks through the dark forest. There are wild beasts everywhere in the silent darkness. It must be real. I'm not dreaming. I'm telling the truth."

Love Harriet Andersson.