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When the Pawn...

★★★★☆  album

When the Pawn...

Fiona Apple at her most unrestrained and exacting, a woman who inhabits emotional extremity and transmutes it into angular, jazz-inflected fury. ‘Fast as You Can’ functions as a admonitory sonata.

what it left me with

Excessive feeling is capacity, not deficiency. The intensity others condemn becomes, through exact articulation, the apotheosis of the work.

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