When The Pawn... - Fiona Apple (1999)
Ideated from: Some selections from Youtuber Rick Beato’s 40 Greatest-Sounding Albums video
The title in full is actually a lengthy poem, making this one of the longest album titles in history. Nobody types it all out anymore.
Apple was coming off a successful debut album, but she wanted to dig deeper. She made a harrowing album of intense and unpredictable music that’s aged into a full-blown classic.
The mostly piano-bass-drums arrangements bite and twist and snarl.
so does it sound great?
Extremely well-captured. I don’t know if it was multi-tracked or not, but it sounds like her and her band in the room with lots of space in the recording.
