ferocious and delicate (Tidal - Fiona Apple)

Member Name: tomcheese

Product:	Tidal - Fiona Apple
Date:	10/01/04 (39 review reads)
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Advantages: lyrical deftness, not without her revelations

Disadvantages: fanciful

Fiona Apple's album Tidal is incredibly ferocious and delicate along the rumbling sass and swagger or lithe soothes of her voice. Sleep to Dream is huskily rendered, like she told someone off a bit too loudly just prior to it; Sullen Girl reveals the fluid refinement of her vocal chords and her lyrical deftness, Shadowboxer is bold on pummeling, deep piano and voice tones. Criminal--"I've been a bad, bad girl I've been careless with a delicate man And it's a sad, sad world When a girl will break a boy just because she can." That about sums up the caustic craft of this song.
Some of these songs are slow-forming but worthwhile (Slow Like Honey, The First Taste) while others are straightforward and almost stifled by mood (Pale September, Never Is A Promise). For all its perspicacity and prodigy, the album can be a bit too etched in intense calligraphy--in other words too fanciful, though there's not much else to complain about here.
Ms. Apple seems tossed about on a rather rocky raft of love and pain but she's not without her revelations.
This album has CD ROM multimedia.

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