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Fiona Apple: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

Mitchell Cohen, Rock's Backpages, 21 June 2012

THE AUDACITY of the new Fiona Apple album makes me so happy, because I can imagine what went on over at her record company when they heard it and realized there was absolutely nothing they could do about it, nothing at all they could say, no way at all to nudge her towards something a little more comprehensible to them.

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