A delicate and pretty record. A soft and delightfully soothing blanket of sound. Right up until the moment it was anything but that. I was blow away by Impromptu. What a ferocious track

Lots to like about this album. It’s a very clever, jazzy, and soulful sound. I had to check what I scored Baduizm as a benchmark, as I seemed to remember particularly enjoying that album. I gave it an 8, and I think this isn’t quite at the same level. This is also 25% longer and didn’t have the same intro and outro track format that I really enjoyed. Two marks off seems fair

I think I generally find Fiona Apple’s music a little bit tedious, actually. Perhaps it’s just not for me as others seem to like it. The music feels like it’s wandering in multiple different directions without committing to any of them. At its best this gave me Florence and the Machine vibes, but I feel that their two albums from around this time, Lungs and Ceremonials, do a bit more with the potential of this sound. On the other hand, tracks like Left Alone fall soundly within a category I didn’t even knew existed, called “Child Playing Piano”.

An entire album of Outro tracks for a sci-fi film. It’s alright, it’s certainly very atmospheric. On the whole a bit close to beeping music for my liking.

I enjoyed this. I would describe it as counter-counter-cultural. Anti-music, if you will. Not in an Ice Spice way. But this album exists to parody and mock music of its age, and musicians of its age, particularly the Beatles. I really enjoyed it

Very solid and enjoyable. Pure vibes

I like the energy but I think it was lacking a real quality foundation in the non-single tracks. Really good in places and forgettable in others. Concise and entertaining

I didn’t mind this at all. Thematically it was very nice. I really liked Castle In Hollywood, even just conceptually it was a very interesting song. I don’t think it’s her best, I think for mostly intangible reasons. I didn’t feel as gripped and I wasn’t quite as affected by the lyrics.

Idk man. I don’t get the appeal of loop based synth pop. Maybe you just had to be there?

Really enjoyable record. Cohen has a way of arriving at a wonderful lyric and leaving you thinking about it over a musical flourish. Acerbic and forthrightly well rounded, to use a Cohen-inspired euphemism, it’s a really quality, punchy, but complete record. Once again proving that all good music came out on 1977.