{"id":807105,"date":"2020-05-05T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=992939"},"modified":"2020-05-05T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T12:00:38","slug":"whats-the-best-fiona-apple-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/whats-the-best-fiona-apple-album\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the Best Fiona Apple Album?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/fiona-apple-album-podcast.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In the new episode of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-music-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-music-now\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-music-now\">Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a><\/em>, Claire Shaffer, Brittany Spanos, and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for a deep dive into the entire catalog of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fiona-apple\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fiona-apple\" data-tag=\"fiona-apple\">Fiona Apple<\/a>, from 1996\u2019s <em>Tidal<\/em> to this year\u2019s masterpiece, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fetch-the-bolt-cutters\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fetch-the-bolt-cutters\" data-tag=\"fetch-the-bolt-cutters\">Fetch the Bolt Cutters<\/a><\/em> (which Shaffer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-2-984926\/\">reviewed<\/a> in April). The episode goes track-by-track through the new album, while exploring how Apple overcame early misconceptions and sexist criticism to become one of the most consistent and inventive artists of her generation. Meanwhile, Shaffer and Spanos explain why they both rank <em>Tidal<\/em> at the bottom of Apple\u2019s catalog, despite being fans of the album.<\/p>\n<p><span>To hear the entire episode right now, press play below or download and subscribe on<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span>iTunes<\/span><\/a> <span>or<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Spotify.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dua-lipa-future-nostalgia-podcast-990562\/\">Last week<\/a> on&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now,<\/em>&nbsp;we interviewed Dua Lipa. The podcast is nominated for a Webby Award \u2013 please vote for us right <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.webbyawards.com\/PublicVoting?_ga=2.246272578.733450778.1588110527-1317811945.1588110527#\/2020\/podcasts\/general-series\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast,&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-ml-dynamic=\"true\" data-ml-dynamic-type=\"sl\" data-orig-url=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" data-ml-id=\"2\" data-ml=\"true\" data-xid=\"fr1588179254209beb\" data-skimlinks-tracking=\"xid:fr1588179254209beb\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>&nbsp;(or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out two years\u2019 worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Questlove, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, Tom Petty, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr., and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates, and explainers with&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone\u2019<\/em>s critics and reporters. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. ET to hear&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>&nbsp;broadcast live from SiriusXM\u2019s studios on Volume, channel 106.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/best-fiona-apple-album-fetch-the-bolt-cutters-992939\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Claire Shaffer, Brittany Spanos, and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt for a deep dive into the entire catalog of Fiona Apple, from 1996\u2019s Tidal to this year\u2019s masterpiece, Fetch the Bolt Cutters (which Shaffer reviewed in April). The episode goes track-by-track through the new album, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 02:39:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}