Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0827969653029 Format: DualDisc Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: October 04, 2005 Sales Rank: 67140 Studio: Sony
DVD SIDE * Entire album in Enhanced LPCM Stereo * Brand-new videos for 'Not About Love' and 'Parting Gift' (live), never before released * Live performances of 5 songs filmed at the club Largo in Los Angeles, including 'Fast As You Can' and 'Paper Bag' * Behind-the-scenes footage
Amazon.com: Fiona Apple, brooding, brainy belter and capital-A artist of near forbidding depth, begins her much gossiped-over third CD on a lark. The title track, one of two songs produced by Jon Brion before the label dispute that prompted hip-hop producer Mike Elizondo (50 Cent, Eminem) to step in, sounds like a Judy Garland number slathered with irony or something Rufus Wainwright might have had a hand in--strings soar, beats bump around skittishly, and notes require a ladder. But playful as it is, by the time the chorus kicks in it's clear why the world has missed Fiona Apple so much. Young female artists who have stepped into the spotlight since she fled it six years ago-- Nellie McKay and Joss Stone spring to mind for their cleverness and heat, respectively--seem slight in comparison. With every track ticked off, in fact, Extraordinary Machine moves listeners a little closer to what might be a correct assumption: that everything they've dipped into since 1999's When the Pawn ... was filler. Fans will feel it especially on 'O'Sailor,' a gimlet-eyed lament, and 'Tymps,' a tight piano track with a tip of the hat to hip-hop. It's 'Window,' though, with its lyric about 'a filthy pane of glass' fogging up a clear view, that sums up the experience of this CD best. 'I had to break the window,' Apple sings, smoky-voiced as ever. 'It just had to be.' With Extraordinary Machine, she shatters already sky-high expectations. -Tammy La Gorce
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Rating: - Fantastic, amused, Fiona...
Musically pretty. Fiona has been experimenting with her own music, creating new sensations and illusions; this is just a step further.
Rating: - A sad sad decline
Well it was an obvious path to musical collapse, she should have stopped at Tidal. If I'd been dating her for the talent she showed on her first CD I would have broken up with her over this piece of haggis. The course of the last three CD's drew a trendline right from stardom into a melodic pit. The lyrics on Extraordinary Machine were not only not up to their namesake but worse than the melodies. The number of great reviews on this site only go to prove once again the masses prefer pablum in lieu of something complex and cognitive.
Her original Cd with it's collection of diminished and augmented chords set to deep overlays of texturing, blended with truly poetic lyrics has been replaced with a distilled musical joke. What on earth gave her the impetus to try to go 'artsy' by experimenting with music predating the second world war I'll never know. It's obvious her angst is no longer producing art, ... Read More
Rating: - a great follow-up to when the pawn...
excellent record...
just like a great wine goes well with great food, this is an excellent follow-up to when the pawn (to me her masterpiece) ... listen to her previous album before this one to get the whole picture... excellent, very weird record... fiona is getting even more radical.. and shows she really is one of the best artists of the decade...
Rating: - One of the best albums of all time
Ms. Apple's talent for consistently brilliant songwriting is staggering. This is a must-have for anyone fascinated by the blurry line between intellectual exploration and raw emotional experience.
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