The artist's fifth studio album was eight years in the making, but the wait is worth it because it’s art pop at its brilliant best You could say controversy helped Fiona Apple when she began her career.
Apple was all of 18 when she released her debut album, Tidal. It was a hit, selling three million copies and garnering an MTV Video Music Award.
The year was 1996 and she had embarked on a career in music just two years earlier. Trained in classical piano, Apple’s vocals on Tidal sounded mature beyond her years and her jazz-influenced piano playing was impressive.
But the lyrics of her songs, all of them self-composed, betrayed her immaturity. In retrospect, Tidal may have become a huge hit owing to the provocative video of one of the