Fiona Apple remains one of the most enigmatic and fascinating artists of the last thirty years. Far Out magazine decided to pay homage to her with a report entitled “Every Fiona Apple album ranked from worst to best”, in which it analyzes her albums by drawing up an ideal ranking. “Only a few artists have the ability to make the audience feel as if they are looking directly into their hearts while they perform – writes the magazine in the introduction – Fiona Apple is an exception. Although she has shared her world with the audience sparingly throughout her career, every time she released an album, she was relentlessly honest and vulnerable. At every stage of her career, Apple has made it a habit to take the most beautiful piano ballad and find a way to nonchalantly break your heart it's about Whether talking about the realities that surrounded her as a young musician or writing cathartic songs in the second half of her career, each of her songs resembles a small window into her reality, a dimension that few can touch.” A direct approach which however combines refined musical experimentation. “Not even Dylan could boast such powerful sounds. Blending baroque pop, soft rock and wild art rock, each piece of Apple's discography explores new instrumental as well as lyrical territory, often pushing beyond the piano to create rhythms that half the time feel like chaos checked”.
Here is the ranking of Fiona Apple's best albums according to Far Out magazine (here is the complete report). A ranking that the writer feels he can fully share.
5. Extraordinary Machine (2005)
4. The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do (2012)
3. When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks… (1999)
2. Fetch The Bolt Cutters (2020)
1. Tidal (1996)
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
