AOTY 2023
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
1996 Ratings: #50 / 120
User Score
1996 Ratings: #18
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
Pitchfork
Using the poetry and jazz that formed her, Fiona Apple grapples eloquently with isolation, retribution, and the oceanic ups and downs of being young and being a woman. Rare is a debut so fully formed.
90
PopMatters

Fiona Apple’s Tidal is a stark, brutal, and often beautiful portrait about a young girl’s physical and emotional growth.

80
AllMusic

Fiona Apple demonstrates considerable talent on her debut album, Tidal, but it is unformed, unfocused talent.

60
Rolling Stone

Seductively miserable, Tidal was packed with jazzy torch songs and twitchy electronic flourishes.

Midline
85

I prefer Spotify but this is ok too.

fakeplasticrose
90

one of the albums my mum used to play around the house sometimes when i was younger, and one we've both fallen back in love with recently

MasterCrackfox
93

Back in 2019 I explored the music that was released throughout the decade we were exiting, and then in 2020 I stepped backwards into the music of the 2000's. As we enter 2021 I'm taking an additional step back in my decade analyses to examine some of the most important works of the 1990's. Given that Fiona Apple's album Fetch The Bolt Cutters was regarded as the best album of 2020 by many critics and fans, reexamining Apple's early word seems like a great place to begin.

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phuonggrah
90

Enjoyed this a lot

NR

Fw this album

heyjupiter
100

* Sleep To Dream : 100
* Sullen Girl : 100
* Shadowboxer : 100
* Criminal : 100
* Slow Like Honey : 100
* The First Taste : 100
* Never Is A Promise : 100
* The Child is Gone : 95
* Pale September : 95
* Carrion : 100

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Track List

1Sleep to Dream
4:08
94
2Sullen Girl
3:54
93
3Shadowboxer
5:24
95
4Criminal
5:41
97
5Slow Like Honey
5:56
88
6The First Taste
4:46
92
7Never Is a Promise
5:54
92
8The Child Is Gone
4:14
87
9Pale September
5:50
84
10Carrion
5:43
90
Total Length: 51 minutes
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Added on: June 18, 2012