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Fiona Apple - Tidal - Album Review Podcast

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“Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done” is the line that makes Criminal land for them.

That vinyl copy matters here. The episode opens with two people realizing Tidal is not exactly an easy shelf pull. Kind of wild, honestly. They remember the album's vinyl life as late, somewhere around 2017 or 2018, and tied to Vinyl Me, Please, where it sold out fast. Denver gets a quick cameo. One host remembers a special event where warehouse leftovers briefly made the record seem findable again. Then the conversation moves into the videos. They get happily tangled up in Fiona Apple clips, a body-shifting couch image, and the kind of 90s neon glow that makes memory feel useful even when it is fuzzy. Criminal becomes the comparison point. They notice another video with the same rough house-party texture: colored walls, shag carpet, and a budget-minded shoot-it-while-we-have-it feel. The joke lands gently. They do not treat the videos like sealed museum pieces. They picture a crew keeping the camera rolling because the house was already there. Then Sullen Girl shifts the room. They clock the title as apt, then move into the arrangement details that make the track stranger. The pedal steel catches them off guard. One host loves how tastefully it shows up, then connects its trippy side to Pink Floyd's Breathe without acting like that explains the whole thing. That is where the episode works best. The music talk moves between close listening and half-remembered references, with corrections left in instead of scrubbed out. Fiona Apple stays at the center. By the end, they are clearly ready for more of her catalog, partly because they hear real depth and partly because her long gaps between albums make each return feel heavier. They want the live show. The ending feels less like a verdict than fan momentum, like two friends putting the record back on and already lining up the next Apple conversation.

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Vinyl-hunt lore, 90s video texture, and careful attention to the songs themselves.

This episode settles into a very specific kind of music-geek pleasure: the hunt for Fiona Apple’s Tidal on vinyl, the relief of finally getting a copy, and the slow attention the album earns once they sit with it.

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