Extraordinary Machine

After 6 years of waiting, Fiona Apple's third album is coming out in October 4th! Now some might argue that the album has already come out . . after all an earlier version of the record was leaked a couple of months ago and downloaded by thousands upon thousands of people. The album has been played on the radio and even reviewed in a couple of major magazines and newspapers. A campaign, Free Fiona, was launched at the beginning of the year to encourage Sony to take the damn thing off the shelf. Free Fiona started off with just a couple of seemingly insignificant protests, but was able to gain enough press attention that word began to spread. And now all of the waiting will finally pay off. Now that the album is officially coming out, this means something even more exciting, a tour!

Now of course not everything is well and good. Something curious about the release announcement sent to my inbox is the omittance of Jon Brion's name. Apparently they retooled the whole album with a new producer. According to the AP, Fiona has turned down all interview requests. She was silent through the whole release debate and now that there is a date set she remains so. Now, Fiona is not exactly one who plays the pr game when it comes to interviews. She seems to be uncontrollably honest, so maybe it is the case of , if you dont have anything nice to say. However, chances are that whenever she does give an interview we will find out at least part of the story.

Links: Free Fiona
Official Website

End Note: In the release Fiona does say: "Now that my album is finally finished, I am very, very excited to have people hear what we did – I am so proud of it, and all of us who worked on it."