Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters is the unofficial album of the pandemic.
An album recorded at home, about feeling trapped, has found an unexpected resonance. Natalie Behring/Getty Images At the moment when much of the world is isolating indoors, Fiona Apple has come to break us out. Much of Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Apple’s first album in eight years and only her third in 20, was recorded in her home, its songs built up from clattering percussion tracks that sound as if they could have been pulled together using household objects. Barking dogs and the occasional mewing cat—sounds that have lately become more familiar to many of us than ever—barge in as…
