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FIONA APPLE "Extraordinary Machine" Reviews
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AZRating: 7.2
Users rating: 9.1 |
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Release: 4 Oct 2005
Label: Sony
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| Bullz-eye |
Rating: 10.0 |
It's nice to have Fiona back at long last, and here's hoping the suits won't be so damn deaf when she's ready to deliver the next one.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 8.5 |
Whatever the truth behind the album's delay, this is one record that's well worth the wait.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 8.0 |
Against all odds, Extraordinary Machine lives up to its title as a testimony to its creator's resilience and flexibility.
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| AV Club |
Rating: 8.0 |
Extraordinary Machine, in spite and occasionally because of its minor missteps and familiar subjects, sounds like nothing else in the pop world.
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| MAXIM |
Rating: 8.0 |
Apple deserves a lot of credit for incorporating fresh ideas into her singer-songwriter fare and fixing nearly everything else wrong with it in the process.
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| PitchFork |
Rating: 7.8 |
The shame of it all is that Apple, after six years of silence, could've made a more definitive, progressive statement rather than something familiar and similar-- and we've got the bootlegs to prove it.
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| PrefixMag |
Rating: 7.0 |
A group of nearly uniformly remarkable songs with production that nearly always makes the wrong decisions.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 6.7 |
Even after all the waiting, it seems the Machine is broken.
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| ShakingThrough |
Rating: 5.0 |
Granted, a dedicated listener could assemble his own mix tape from the two releases.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 5.0 |
Even after a few listens into Extraordinary Machine the musical paint quickly dries to reveal a thinly veiled cover-up job of a barrel load of average tunes done in a her now increasingly tepid and familiar style.
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| Aversion |
Rating: 4.0 |
But after three albums' worth of her own listless compositions, she burned her credit.
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Users comments
| Jessica Harkness |
Rating: 10.0 |
best album yet! clever and polished, yet new and innovative. here is to hoping the next album wont be as long of a wait! |
| fer |
Rating: 10.0 |
extraordinary record from such a great artist... |
| Diogo |
Rating: 10.0 |
Extraordinary Machine - the title says it all. Fiona Apple is really a great composing machine and all in this album sounds extraordinary. It's amazing how this album had the risk of nbot being edited. It's a crime against the lovers of this great chick. In fact, Apple assumes here as a balanced person, looking and sounding better than ever! Everything here is alternative, with some variations of pop and rock. We can see the old-Fiona in hiper-piano-catchy "Get Him Back" and in "O' Sailor", whick sounds very similar to "Shadowboxer" - and that's great. There is some unique songs in Fiona style, such as the title track and "Waltz (Better than fine)". Special look to "Red Red Red", which has a kind of chill-out background. The most acessible listen here is, without a shadow of doubt, "Window" - a pretty normal pop-rock song but has the usual Fiona-power to it.
The piano is now a person - and I give a clue: it's a hell of a woman. |
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