Fiona Apple handed live debuts to three tracks from her 2020 album Fetch The Bolt Cutters during her appearance for the virtual festival organised by The New Yorker over the weekend.
Released in April, Apple’s fifth studio album quickly garnered wide attention after becoming one of the most widely praised records of this or any year, but it’s taken until now for any of the songs to be showcased live, her first gig in three years bringing out its title-track, I Want You To Love Me and Shameika.
“Stark, uncomfortable, at times bleakly funny, Fiona Apple’s tirades and cajolements force you to look and listen in ways almost no other writer has employed in recent years,” our review reads.
“The term remarkable is so over applied in entertainment criticism that it’s long forfeited any meaning. Nevertheless, Fetch The Bolt Cutters is a remarkable album. It will confirm your prejudices or confront your perceptions, but it will not leave you without an opinion.”