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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
The Idler Wheel… is an innately private record, as Apple’s tend to be, but she has a way of drawing listeners in as she pushes them away, luring them, siren-like, into the maelstrom of her own reflection.
100
You have to give yourself over to The Idler Wheel in a way you probably haven’t done since you were a kid, before jobs and other adult responsibilities claimed the long hours you spent curled up by your stereo speakers. It isn’t easy listening. But it’s worth it.
90
Apple has quite cleverly developed musically in just the right way, creating something utterly distinct and different to her earlier work whilst still retaining all the characteristics that won fans over to begin with.
90
The Idler Wheel's spareness does lend it an insular loneliness, one that's divorced from the outside world while also being intimately in-tune with its basic realities.
90
The Idler Wheel succeeds in creating a singular world more daring than any of Apple’s previous records and one of the most daring pop records in recent history.
90
The sparse, even unprompted production only makes it richer, resulting in a fascinating unanimity of piano and voice that turns more involving with every clink, clatter, and clap.
84
Few vocalists can erase the distance between performer and listener as shrewdly as Apple can, and that toggle gives The Idler Wheel its strange power.
83
Since there’s so little to grab onto, The Idler Wheel might be better understood as an emotional statement rather than a musical one.
80
The tension created by the lyrics and music is wonderful and uneasy, ensuring that ‘The Idler…’ is endlessly fascinating and unlike anything else you’re likely to hear this year.
80
The Idler Wheel… is her most adult work yet, a record that’s underpinned by the fundamental grown-up characteristic of embracing one’s own ridiculous, stubborn dysfunction because, Hell, what other option is there?
60
Whipping Cords seems to require far too many listens to really reach that ‘viola!’ moment—sure to result in exhausted listeners who try desperately to love the record as much as they think they should
I can't word things nearly as eloquently as Fiona, but if I could, this could almost be my diary put to music. Few albums speak to me like this. Few albums are this perfect either. The butter-and-honey piano, the bourbon-soaked strings, the razor-sharp lyrics: it all hits like a ton of bricks, as if your subconscious is barraging you with personal revelations and pouring peroxide over your wounds at the same time. It's hard to describe very well, but one word comes to mind: perfect.
Good shit. 'Hot Knife' gets special points for how many times the word butter is said.
O instrumental, o vocal, as letras, tudo gira e colabora para se adentrar no universo de solidão criado por Fiona nesse album. Começar com "Every Single Night" é praticamente levar um soco no estômago. A produção é incrivel, a composição é incrivel, de longe o melhor trabalho da Fiona e um dos melhores de 2012.
Melhores Faixas: Every Single Night, Regret, Anything we Want, Hot Knife
Melhores Faixas: Every Single Night, Regret, Anything we Want, Hot Knife
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #1 | / | Pretty Much Amazing |
| #1 | / | Spinner |
| #1 | / | Stereogum |
| #1 | / | TIME |
| #2 | / | Consequence of Sound |
| #2 | / | Entertainment Weekly |
| #3 | / | AllMusic |
| #3 | / | Pazz & Jop |
| #3 | / | Pitchfork |
| #3 | / | PopMatters |
| #4 | / | Paste |
| #5 | / | A.V. Club |
| #5 | / | No Ripcord |
| #5 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #5 | / | The Needle Drop |
More Lists
MISC LISTS
| #6 | / | Drowned in Sound |
| #8 | / | Pitchfork Readers |
| #10 | / | Pitchfork (2010-2014) |
| #61 | / | FACT Magazine (2010-2014) |
| #209 | / | SPIN (1985-2014) |
Track List
- Every Single Night
- Daredevil
- Valentine
- Jonathan
- Left Alone
- Werewolf
- Periphery
- Regret
- Anything We Want
- Hot Knife
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Added on: April 2, 2012
