lizzie sharples - 7/22/2009

From the opening bars of 'On the Bound' this album is beautiful. Diverse in its content, its rhythms and the layers of instruments making a bed for Apples mellifluous voice to lay upon. I can guarantee you won't have heard anything like this album before, I've been searching for 10 years now.

Whats makes it so different? It's Apples haunting voice from which you can feel the depth and breadth of her pain, anger and sadness. 'Here's another speech you wish I'd swallow, another cue for you to fold your ears', maybe why Apple isn't a more successful artist is that as the above quote from 'To your love' suggests Apples songs don't always make for comfortable listening.

Whilst most of the focus is on Apple voice the music supporting it is what completes the complexity of each song. Layers upon layers of different instruments, melodies, rhythms...strong piana melodies, crashes and booms of drums, squiggling horns. When bought all together makes this eclectic album which truely is my favourite.