- Artist
- Fiona Apple
- Album
- Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Early reviews. Based on 7 critics so far. The Breakdown will settle as more outlets weigh in.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Slant | 5/5 | 100 | “The singer stretches her talents in adventurous new directions throughout the album.” |
| Pitchfork | 10/10 | 100 | “Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound, a wild symphony of the everyday, an unyielding masterpiece. No music has ever sounded quite like it.” |
| Consequence | A | 95 | “Reclusive songwriter Fiona Apple emerges with Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her most challenging, raw, and liberating listen to date.” |
| Clash | 9/10 | 90 | “Fiona Apple’s fifth album and her first in eight years ‘Fetch The Bolt Cutters’ has finally arrived, a record lovingly made in her” |
| Louder Than War | 9/10 | 90 | “On her first album in eight years, Fiona Apple continues to demonstrate why she's a singular talent.” |
| PopMatters | 9/10 | 90 | “When Emily Nussbaum's superlative profile of Fiona Apple appeared in The New Yorker in March of 2020, a lot of attention was centered on a downright shocking” |
| musicOMH | 4.5/5 | 90 | “There's an unsettling edge to one of the most remarkable albums of the year” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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