Beyoncé's 4, Salt-N-Pepa's Blacks' Magic and Fiona Apple's Tidal are featured in our Records That Changed Our Lives series. Photo Illustration by Estefania Mitre/NPR/Getty Images hide caption
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When she first heard Fiona Apple's album 1996 Tidal, writer Lindsay Zoladz says the record stood out to her for how it "validated [her] experience of pain." Photo Illustration by Estefania Mitre/NPR; Getty Images; Courtesy of Columbia Records hide caption
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Lido Pimienta's Miss Colombia is one of the best albums released in April. Daniella Murillo/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
NPR Music's Top 14 Albums Of April
To bolster the fun and success of her already chart-climbing 2020 single "Savage," Megan Thee Stallion manifested a remix from Beyoncé. Bob Levey/Getty Images for Spotify hide caption
NPR Music's Top 14 Songs Of April
The title of Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters started as a line from a TV crime drama, but became the album's central message: "Fetch your tool of liberation. Set yourself free," Apple says. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
'Fetch Your Tool Of Liberation': Fiona Apple On Setting Herself Free
Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters is her first new album in eight years. Her previous release was 2012's The Idler Wheel... Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Fiona Apple's Fetch the Bolt Cutters is out now. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Fiona Apple. Her long-awaited — and monumental — new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, tops our shortlist of the best releases out on April 17. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
King Princess and Fiona Apple, "I Know" Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Lady Gaga performs "Til It Happens To You" on stage at the 88th Oscars on Feb. 28, 2016. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Listen to the Story
Joni Mitchell strums her guitar outside The Revolution club in London in 1968. Central Press/Getty Images hide caption
Fiona Apple performs with the Watkins Family Hour at the Tiny Desk. Ariel Zambelich/NPR hide caption
Watkins Family Hour's self-titled debut comes out July 24. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
ILLuminate (featuring Kendrick Lamar)
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Known for brevity's sake as The Idler Wheel..., Fiona Apple's new album is her first in seven years. Lionel Deluy hide caption
Fiona Apple's new album, out June 19, is titled The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do. Dan Monick hide caption
Every Single Night
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Known for brevity's sake as The Idler Wheel..., Fiona Apple's new album is her first in seven years. Dan Monick hide caption
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