Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser... [2012 Deluxe] Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser... [Deluxe]
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Artist..................: Fiona Apple
Album.................: The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do [Deluxe]
Genre.................: Pop
Source...............: CD
Year..................: 2012
Ripper................: NMR
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version...............: FLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality................: Lossless, (avg. bitrate: 754kb/s)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags..................: VorbisComment
Included..............: EAC Rip w/ Cue, Audiochecker, M3U
Covers................: Front
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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
review - by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
editor rating - ★★★★½ of 5 Stars
So much of the drama surrounding Fiona Apple's third album, Extraordinary Machine, focused on its recording and release -- how the original Jon Brion productions were scrapped in favor of new versions helmed by Mike Elizondo, all fueling fan panic and an Internet protest pleading for a free Fiona -- that ultimately all the clamor obscured Apple herself, both her songs and performances. She runs no such risk on The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, her fourth album, arriving some seven years after Extraordinary Machine. Alone with her voice, piano, and percussionist Charley Drayton, Apple has nowhere to hide, nor does she give any indication she'd prefer to run. These spare but not skeletal arrangements -- each cut is subtly colored with harmonies, slight effects, overlapping rhythms, and additional keyboards -- never shift focus away from Fiona's magnetic vocals, the human element pulling us into these songs.
Some hooks are stronger than others -- "Periphery" cuts to the quick, whereas "Every Single Night" surges -- but what was rumored about Extraordinary Machine is actually true about The Idler Wheel: there are no singles here, nothing concise and concentrated to facilitate an easy sell. But that's not to say that The Idler Wheel is alienating. As elliptical as the melodies and words can be, the music is immediate and the songs unfold quickly, certain turns of phrase or thrilling runs swiftly seeping into the subconscious. Lacking either ornate production or a pop single, The Idler Wheel plays like Fiona Apple at her purest and that's plenty complicated: she takes no shortcuts or easy turns, her intent somewhat shrouded but never absent.
Much of the charm of Apple's music isn't decoding what it all means but learning its internal clockwork, letting the songs take root, so the love songs ("Jonathan") seem sweeter, the braggadocio ("Hot Knife") funnier, the pathos ("Valentine," "Regret") and paranoia ("Werewolf") feeling fathomless. Once the startling Spartan surfaces of The Idler Wheel become familiar, similarities to her three previous albums are apparent -- she takes certain jazzy strides that hark back to Tidal, there's a rigorous dexterity reminiscent of When the Pawn -- but what's new is an unwavering determination and cohesion.
Nothing is wasted, either in the composition or arrangement, and this lean confidence binds The Idler Wheel. Stripped of all her carnivalesque accouterments, Fiona Apple remains as rich and compelling as she ever was, perhaps even more so.
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2012 release, the first album in seven years from the acclaimed songstress. Recording of the album began casually and quietly in 2008 and Fiona kept the recording process secret from her fans and her label. Surprisingly enough, Epic Records were unaware that she was recording an album until she handed the finished product to them. The album was co-produced by her touring drummer, Charley Drayton.
Fiona Apple previewed three songs from her upcoming fourth studio album, which boasts a typically enigmatic title in The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw, And
Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, to a wildly enthusiastic audience at 2012's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
This set includes Fiona Apple's first album in seven years on CD plus a DVD of 5 live songs filmed in Austin, TX, 2012, packaged in a book filled with Fiona's handwritten lyrics and drawings, 2 original photos and a fold-out poster.
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CD
1. (00:03:32) Fiona Apple - Every Single Night
2. (00:03:27) Fiona Apple - Daredevil
3. (00:03:32) Fiona Apple - Valentine
4. (00:05:03) Fiona Apple - Jonathan
5. (00:04:50) Fiona Apple - Left Alone
6. (00:03:12) Fiona Apple - Werewolf
7. (00:04:57) Fiona Apple - Periphery
8. (00:05:16) Fiona Apple - Regret
9. (00:04:40) Fiona Apple - Anything We Want
10. (00:04:01) Fiona Apple - Hot Knife
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Bonus CD
11. (00:04:53) Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can (Live At SXSW/Austin 2012)
12. (00:05:22) Fiona Apple - A Mistake (Live At SXSW/Austin 2012)
13. (00:04:31) Fiona Apple - Anything We Want (Live At SXSW/Austin 2012)
14. (00:04:22) Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream (Live At SXSW/Austin 2012)
15. (00:03:16) Fiona Apple - Every Single Night (Live At SXSW/Austin 2012)
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Dynamic Range (DR1)
Analyzed: Fiona Apple / The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (CD1)
Number of tracks: 10
Codec: FLAC
Official DR value: DR11
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Dynamic Range (DR2)
Analyzed: Fiona Apple / The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw & Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (CD2)
Number of tracks: 5
Codec: FLAC
Official DR value: DR10
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Total Playing Time.........: 01::05:09
Playing Time CD1..........: 00:42:40
Playing Time CD2..........: 00:22:29
Total Size............: 359.00 MB
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