![]() It was originally slated for later this year, but she moved it up to way earlier-a blessed announcement made via a playful Instagram and then an even more playful ( dog on the beach!) YouTube clip. ![]() They come out of nowhere-it’s a primo Do I have an open browser tab that’s autoplaying video? moment-and they are screaming, and joyful, and terrifying, and they carry on all the way through the last chorus, including the part where Apple sings, “But we can still support each other / All we gotta do’s avoid each other.” And that, finally, is the intense part, because here in April 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak has turned a pack of screaming kids into a global medical liability, and avoiding each other is pretty much all we can do for one another, and the total absence of that sort of feral collective joy is the most terrifying thing of all.Īpple’s fifth album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, is out Friday. … and halfway through those lines, WTF, here comes the Sudden Pack of Screaming Kids. Intense, but that’s not the moment, nor is it the terrifying bridge, which kicks off with a huge, ragged, painfully audible intake of breath before she starts bellowing:Īpple more or less screams at several points during The Idler Wheel, including “Daredevil” (“Seek! Me! Out! / Look at! / Look at! / Look at! / Look at! / Me!”) and the extra-harrowing “Regret.” (“But I ran out of white doves’ feathers / To soak up the hot piss that comes from your mouth / Every time you address me.”) But on “Werewolf” there’s an eerie sense of calm by the time she gets here. She’s reliably bellowing even at her quietest, wounding even at her gentlest.īut then again I was waving around a bleeding open wound That voice, in another song on an earlier record, had taught me the word stentorian (which is embarrassing), and since then, for me anyway, it has always embodied the word. But as with much of the record-only Apple’s fourth overall since her 1996 debut, Tidal, made her one of the alt-rock era’s most ferocious and misunderstood and reclusive and above all enduring stars-it’s mostly just stark piano and her eternally startling voice. (I almost didn’t write out the full title, but that felt disrespectful.) There’s a concussive kick drum, and a little upright bass, and a very brief outburst of banjo. “Werewolf” appears on her last album, 2012’s The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. I had a pretty intense moment the other day with the Fiona Apple song “Werewolf.” I almost called it an “emo moment” but that felt glib I almost didn’t use the first person (which felt indulgent) but fuck it.
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