This week, the Analysis Paralysis team dig into the recently released album 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters', the fifth album from American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple.

Fetch The Bolt Cutters is a heady mix of percussion, noise, piano lines, feminism and fury. Unflinching in its focus and filled with incisive gut-punching lyrics, the team dig deep to work through their feelings brought on by listening to the album and consider the wider criticial acclaim the record has received from critics.

CONTENT WARNING: Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' is a work that explicitly discusses sexual assault, domestic violence and abuse. We discuss these themes as they crop up on tracks.
in particular, from 19:15 to 21:30 we discuss 'For Her' a song about sexual assault.
There are also wider conversations about me too toward the end of the episode.(from 31:00 - 38:00 minutes).

further reading:

NY times profile piece on Fiona Apple
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/arts/music/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters.html

big long NewYorker profile on Fiona Apple:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/23/fiona-apples-art-of-radical-sensitivity

THAT pitchfork review:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/fiona-apple-fetch-the-bolt-cutters/