Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters | Mad Monday

Fiona Apple brings some anger to Mad Monday with “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” the title track from her long awaited fifth LP.

Mad Monday serves as a marvelous means to start off a hectic, work week for many.  Monday is among the more hated days of the week, so let’s spice it up with some music, shall we? Today’s Mad Monday (April 27, 2020), arrives courtesy of Fiona Apple with “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” the title track from Fetch the Bolt Cutters, her long-awaited fifth studio album.

Jazz plays a sizable role on the brilliant “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” which was fittingly featured on 11 Cutting Edge Cut Songs, published just April 23, 2020.  Instrumentally, it’s perfect, with the percussive sounds, the timbre added with string bass, and the elegance of vibraphone.  Fiona Apple serves up a playful performance, sometimes speaking and other times singing in traditional melodic fashion.  She enlists Cara Delevingne on background vocals, as well as dogs apparently (at the end).  There’s a rawness about Fetch the Bolt Cutters as a whole and the title track exemplifies it perfectly.  Per Vulture, Apple describes this song as a late addition to the project, with the following takeaway: “Fetch the fucking bolt cutters and get yourself out of the situation that you’re in — whatever it is that you don’t like.”

With that said, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” feels like an exemplary song for Mad Monday.

Fiona Apple • Fetch the Bolt Cutters • Epic • 2020 

Fiona Apple, “Fetch the Bolt Cutters” | Mad Monday [Photo Credits: Alexis, Brent Faulkner, Epic,The Musical Hype, Pixabay, Robin Higgins, taniarose, Tumisu]