Grammy award winning Fiona Apple returns with her latest offering of poetic pop piano beauties with an album six years after the sucessful release of her last. For those not in the know, Apple was once crowned a singing prodigy after being discovered as a fresh faced teen, and now over ten years down the line, she's still producing alternative jazzy-cum-pop infuesed melodies, fringed with piano sensibilities. Although this album leaked early on the internet, it's still taken its time to reach the general public, and after many unsatisfied attempts, Apple has finally delivered the goods as Extraordinary Machine is a fruitbowl of delights with many sweet and juicy tracks to get your teeth stuck into.Trademark tales of falling in and out of love, bad days and relationships - same old, same old. Middle of the road topics for a middle of the road audience. Yet presented in a confident confrontational and teasing manner, with meaning hidden through poetic devices of imagery and symbols gives some depth to her confessional and anecdotal writing. 'Tymps (The Stick In The Head Song)' sticks out as a funky electro number, with dark, sinister, ghostly swirls which combine sublimely with her throaty vocals. She also experiments with an eerie, instrumental jam, adding new flavours to her stlye. She shows her sassy, jazzy style through 'Get Him Back', where she plays a game of vocal gymnastics with her bittersweet, intelligent lyrics. Hypnotising.
Apple is like forbidden fruit - something you know is bad for you and you musn't lust it, but in the end you succumb and fall for it. Unfortunately, Apple falls from an already heavily laden tree of MOR music, so therefore might just be tempting enough for an album chart currently soaked with easy-listening, singer-songwriter acts.
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