When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King... by Fiona Apple

Pros: Everything. An amazing work from an impressive talent.
Cons: ...

I first recall Fiona Apple after the release of her debut album, Tidal.

The song, Shadowboxer, sounded like nothing else on radio and resonated through my heart and mind for the weeks before I finally purchased...

Pros: Excellent Lyrics, Great somber mood, Good Instrumentals
Cons: Apple's Voice Is Seldom An Instrument Here

Fiona Apple is a fairly extraordinary musical artist and poet, the latter fact she emphasizes with an obscenely long album title that most people reduce down to "When The Pawn. . ." The truth is, I could not relate the entire title because the cover of ...

Pros: Fantastic songwriting, inventive instrumentation
Cons: A couple of slow burners bore me a little

This review is dedicated to sslabs , whom I seem to have ...

Pros: Dense, coiled, moody stylings from a gifted chanteuse
Cons: A bit self-involved at times, but even that's minor

Next to Fiona Apple, does Avril Lavigne really know the meaning of complicated? I’m reminded of the 2000 Academy Awards Ceremony when the best director was announced, and the camera cut immediately to a hilarious vision of Apple pouting, obviously ...

Pros: Fits right in with Tidal in greatness, picks up where it left off perfectly.
Cons: Fiona takes the punches for our listening pleasure

This is the second review in my FAT series – The Fiona Apple Trilogy. A walk through Fiona Apple’s musical diaries, running along the lines of my life. After Tidal I knew I had found something great. But you know there is always that fear when you ...

Pros: Different. In it's own genre. Definately grows on ya.
Cons: Can be hard to understand at first.

OK. So I have to admit - I almost NEVER jump on a trend until it is almost gone. Which was the case with Fiona Apple's When The Pawn... I mention this because I have little - well no background info to tell you about Fiona Apple. I ...

Pros: Everything. Really.
Cons: Nothing. Really.

Fiona Apple's When The Pawn Hits The Conflicts He Thinks Like A King What He Knows Throws The Blows When He Goes To The Fight And He’ll Win The Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters The Ring There’s No Body To Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So ...

Pros: Fiona Apple is a talented artist overall; brilliant songwriting, singing, and production...
Cons: ...a few dull songs make the album a bit inconsistent

My obsession with Fiona Apple started back in late 2005, when I purchased her third studio effort, Extraordinary Machine.  I fell easily for Apple's sultry vocals, exquisite songwriting, and catchy tunes and literally wore the CD out ...

Pros: Realism
Cons: Maybe a little too brutty

Beauty comes in many forms, but unique beauty is rare. Fiona Apple is one of the rare birds, and When The Pawn... is her masterpiece. I guess I was a bit hopped up on the wrong kind of things a few years ago when I was introduced to this ...

Pros: Uniformly excellent singing, writing and playing.
Cons: Two songs are a tiny bit less good than the others.

After the multi-platinum success of her debut album “Tidal”, Fiona Apple made a now-infamous speech at an awards show, advocating such shocking principles as “Think for yourself” and “Don’t be a slave to celebrity culture”. ...

Pros: wonderful voice that is both richly smooth and raspy at the same time, highly intelligent lyrics, brilliant music
Cons: none at all

Fiona Apple's "When the Pawn" is a rich collection of blues influenced rock underlying powerfully raw vocals. Fiona is not only an amazingly talented vocalist, songwriter, and piano player, but also a visionary poet. In interviews, she cites...

Pros: 10 great songs, full of surprising emotion and depth.
Cons: I keep searching, but I'm not finding.

A friend of mine once said that she found nothing more fascinating than finding out about someone who was fundamentally different from you. I could understand this, as I realized I enjoyed the same thing, except it was usually with someone who was ...

Pros: 10 songs and they're all good
Cons: 90 words in the title, but who cares?

There are two things that can be said about Fiona Apple: the first is that she weirded us all out with that one really strange acceptance speech, the second is that she has one of THOSE voices. Those voices that just stand out, that you love to listen...

Pros: Everything is perfect. She's topped Tidal, a seemingly impossible task.
Cons: Absolutely nothing.

track ratings = 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 / 5 = cd rating = 5/5

When I discovered Fiona Apple’s debut Tidal I was simply amazed. The quality of the music found was unbelievable. Only weekends later I was ready...

Pros: The raw feel. The raw voice. The raw energy. Everything, basically.
Cons: A bit short, but that's a minor con.

There have been few artists who have changed their sound so drastically for their sophomore effort. Some want to be the same one-sided artist they are...or the record label forces them to. Either way, the few that did change their sound, there was ...