album review
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple orchestrated this at home with her dogs and household percussion, constructing an album about liberation from the constraints of enforced silence. She declares it plainly: no measure of intimidation will restore her to obedience, no table-kicking will force compliance. The work stands as a manifesto against constraint.
what it left me with
To fetch the bolt cutters is to liberate yourself from the space you have occupied only through excessive acquiescence; the act itself comprises the entire curriculum required.
this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.
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