Two new Fiona Apple songs have hit the internet these last two days! ‘Werewolf’ and ‘Anything We Want’.
‘Werewolf’ is a piano-driven cathartic song, sung with Apple’s trademark passionate vocals and surprising children’s playful screams in the background. After hearing it a few times, I can just say the tune is very Fiona Apple, with its subjacent darkness in the piano keys and the superb lyrics going from metaphor to metaphor:
‘I could liken you to a werewolf the way you left me for dead/But I admit that I provided a full moon’ she sings at the beginning of the song, which seems to be about one of these tortured-girl-insensible-guy relationships turning sour. ‘The lava of a volcano/Shot up hot from under the sea/One thing leads to another/And you made an island of me’ she sings later on,… err these two were definitively not made for each other, but what’s new in her world?
‘Anything We Want’ is more low-key with amusing toyish percussion, but not less dramatic, sounding like a slow steamy dance around someone she really want to be kissed by when they ‘find some time alone’. And what do you do with lines like these, ‘My scars were reflecting the mist in your headlights/I looked like a neon zebra shakin' rain off of stripes’? Ah Fiona I have missed you!
Of course, the songs are off her upcoming album, ‘The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do’ out June 19 on Epic.