Fiona was only 18 years old when she came out with her first album. But once you hear Tidal, Fiona Apple's debut album, you will know that those words come from a wisdom that is beyond age, that is inherent, incompromising and straight from the heart.
Although Fiona Apple is first and foremost a longsmith, her piano and haunting, dusky voice are the ultimate vehicles for her art. Fiona played piano since she was 8. She never concidered herself a singer, but a writer. She sings her songs because it wouldn't make sence if anyone else did.
While Fiona Apple's lyrics may be interpreted in many ways, the overriding message of her debut is that life is the sum of experience- painful and joyous, tangible and emotional, positive and negative. Her album is called Tidal partly because her fame hit her like a tidal wave but also because 'tidal' refers to ebbing and flowing, and that's really what life is, a constant ebb and flow.
For Fiona Apple, the tide is high- and the time is now.
