by
Fiona Apple
- Record Label: Epic
- Release Date: Jun 19, 2012
User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 353 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 319 out of 353
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Mixed: 9 out of 353
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Negative: 25 out of 353
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Sep 9, 2023Fiona Apple is not just a musician, but a sonic artist imbuing each project she makes with so much raw emotion, passion, and feeling. Amazing album.
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Sep 18, 20229.8/10
It's really a great album.The songs "Every Single Night" and "Hot Knife" are really nice! -
Jul 15, 2022she's such an icon and this is perfect. fiona apple IS the music industry forever
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Nov 15, 2021
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Nov 20, 2020Apple's vocals are raw and unrestricted, her lyricism airtight and perfected. The Idler Wheel isn't as experimental as Fetch the Bolt Cutters, but it excels in areas Fetch the Bolt Cutters simply cannot by having a somewhat more standard structure.
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Jun 9, 2020Perfect ensemble of a collection of sound and lyrics put together.This is her best work so far and is undeniably a must in anyone’s favourite catalogue.A rare instance where critics and listeners agree on one thing!
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May 7, 2020I can say without a doubt that this is a masterpiece, it's my favorite album ever.
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Mar 26, 2020The pure and painful sound of drama, loneliness and depression that you never get tired of listen to
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Feb 3, 2020The Idler Wheel... hasn't only a big title... Album also is grandious. Pop melodies divides spaces with tense atmospheres, creating a new notion of dynamic.
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Mar 19, 2019I CANNOT BELIEVE I MISSED THIS WHAT THE **** SIMPLY BREATHTAKING . just discovered this and my mind is blown...........
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Jun 7, 2017Utterly brilliant! The song 'Jonathan' is a highlight but the entire album is a masterpiece. Her chord progressions are strange and interesting and her drummer is also excellent. A work of musical genius, in my opinion.
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Feb 19, 2017Bow down to Fiona Apple, for she created this powerful album that pulses with life and reveals our most intimate insecurites whithout a single trace of its passing.
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Feb 17, 2016I'm obsessed with this album, Fiona Apple's voice it's just magnificent, the piano it's calm and furious, some weird but amazing samples like scissors against glass or child's playing fit pretty well, and the lyrics are so poetic and amazing. Ten out of ten record.
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Sep 26, 2014This album really surprised me! "The Idler Wheel..." was the fist album by Fiona Apple that I listened and I was like "What's this?"! Her voice is amazing and I cannot talk how much feelings I felt when I listen I all time. I don't know if it is the best, but I really love it. ♥
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Aug 6, 2014Arguably her best album since Tidal, The Idler Wheel takes what was so good about that one and bumps the knob up on the intensity and honesty factor while letting Miss Apple get more loose and unleashed. This album aches, swells, undulates, and roils you with all its boiling emotion; this burn feels good.
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Jan 9, 2014
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Oct 22, 2013
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Oct 17, 2013I would never consider myself a Fiona Apple fan. Prior to this album, I found her quite self indulgent, annoying. This album took me a long time to come around...but when it finally did, WOW, its absoultely brilliant.
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Mar 11, 2013
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Feb 6, 2013
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Jan 23, 2013The Idler Wheel is an incredibly mature work of art, taking the few musical resources at hand and using them to absolute perfection. This album must not be missed.
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Jan 4, 2013
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Oct 10, 2012Fiona can do no wrong. Every song on this album is absolutely breathtaking. Her emotion, her songwriting, everything is perfectly captured in these songs. The thing that makes this record stand apart from the rest of her work is how stripped-down and focused each song is. This is truly Fiona's masterpiece.
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Oct 6, 2012
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Oct 3, 2012It's quirky and it's not an easy listen but it's nothing short of amazing and it deserves every 10/10 it gets, I can almost guarantee there'll be nothing better to listen to until her next album !
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Oct 3, 2012Great musical achievement! For me, this is the second best album of the year after Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange". This is a lot better than anything Fiona has released so far. Try it!
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Aug 29, 2012Great album! She hasn't publishing any CDs for seven years, but "The Idler Wheel..." (what a long title!) is worth the wait! With no exageration, I can easily say this is gonna be the best album of 2012 so far!
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Aug 19, 2012Full of emotion, powerful lyrics, amazing voice (very different than her older albums!! it's still strong, but in a very different way!) I am addicted to this album. Every. Single. Song. I don't understand how anybody could not enjoy this music, it's just too great!
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Aug 5, 2012
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Dec 20, 2012It's an album that demands something of the listener, but rewards it in spades.
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Jul 24, 2012An album that's damn catchy after all.
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Jul 19, 2012Still the same Fiona Apple: bigger than "all the fishes in the sea."