Fiona Apple - Tidal
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Artist: Fiona AppleBrand: Sony
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 1996-07-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Sleep to Dream
- Sullen Girl
- Shadowboxer
- Criminal
- Slow Like Honey
- First Taste
- Never Is a Promise
- Child Is Gone
- Pale September
- Carrion
Music reviews of Tidal
Music Review: Compromises far more than it should with bad trends
Rating: 3 Stars
When I was hating trends in music played on commercial radio with dreadful albums like Nirvana's Nevermind and Silverchair's Frogstomp, Fiona Apple, as a singer/songwriter only slightly older than me, appealed greatly because of comparisons I had read with Tori Amos' first two albums.
Being who I was back in 1996, "Tidal" had considerable appeal at the time and I felt it a worthwhile purchase. However, with hindsight, Fiona Apple cannot stand up to any claim to be anything more than an ordinary singer/songwriter. The beautiful ballads "The First Taste" and "Never Is a Promise", however, do come quite close to standing up with the top tier of the field with their touching singing and highly thoughtful lyrics. The morbidity of "The First Taste" in particular is as good as the best traditional folk songs about death, despite Apple's lyrics having a distinctly modern twist. "Never Is a Promise" is not far short of Tori Amos or Renaissance's John Tout in its keyboard work.
Unfortunately, the rest of "Tidal" does not manage to live up to the standard of those two tracks on repeated listening. The opening two tracks, "Sleep to Dream" and "Sullen Girl", sound sly at first but upon repeated listening it is clear that Apple is sacrificing her personal art for something that is far too close to the kind of posturing that allowed Alanis Morisette's annoying Jagged Little Pill to become the first record to sell a million copies in Australia. "Criminal" at first can seem a passionate cry but its overblown nature becomes apparent with more listening experience, and "Shadowboxer" is worse and less intense with far too little melody for a piano-playing singer/songwriter. "Slow Like Honey" is beautiful but far too slight, though "The Child Is Gone" and "Pale September" are touching enough to be worth a recommendation.
All in all, despite a few good songs, "Tidal" is mediocre for its genre and compromises with the dreadfully bombastic alternative rock and synthesiser music of its time too much.
Description of Tidal
Tidal is the debut album by Fiona Apple, a New York singer-songwriter-pianist who was 18 years old at the time of its 1996 release. Apple is obviously talented--she has a dark, smoky alto and a knack for an arresting turn of phrase--but she's still several years away from realizing her potential. For every fresh lyric she writes ("Daddy longlegs, I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you"), she provides two examples of embarrassingly precious schoolgirl poetry ("Adagio breezes fill my skin with sudden red," from the same song, "The First Taste"). She also has yet to refine her moody piano chords into actual melodies, though "Shadowboxer" comes close. --Geoffrey HimesGeneral CDs
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