Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound. Mixed at Brooklyn Recording Studio, Los Angeles assisted by Tom Banghart. The hypnotizing pull of these highs and lows make Tidal even easier to sink into it is a record that swells and rages on an instinctual level. Producer Andrew Slater Recorded By Mark Endert Vocals, Written-By Fiona Apple Notes Recorded at Sony Music Studios, Ocean Way Recorders, 4th Street Recording, Los Angeles. What primeval force is more fitting than the tides to preside over such a magnificent airing out of wounds? Nothing is quite solid on Tidal anyway, and despite the ferocity, it is always a peaceful album, like the lapping of waves. As to her speech at the MTV awards, she says she got into this line of work to say whatever it is she wanted to say, and that’s what she’s gonna do.According to one strain of folklore surrounding the record, Fiona insisted that the name, Tidal, was taken in part because of its phonetic proximity to the funny emptiness of “Title.” But given the wild power of the thing that had come out her, she must have known this magnetism needed proper naming. Listening to her spar with Howard Stern in 1997, you want to root for her not just because she’s getting bullied by a guy more than twice her age, but because she’s brave enough to fight back. But for all its finesse, the lingering mood of Tidal is bitter and resolute: She’s going to bare her heart no matter how much it hurts.
She’d grown up with classical piano and jazz standards-worlds where technical proficiency can often outweigh raw feeling. While Billie Holiday-a childhood influence-transformed her pain with laughter, Apple wields hers like a blade: Discreet, but it’ll cut you. J When writer Lindsay Zoladz first heard Tidal as a teen, it validated her pain in an uncertain time. If she takes pride in her powers of seduction, it’s only because it’s one of the few she’s allowed to exercise (“Criminal”). Tidal is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Fiona Apple, released in the United States on July 23, 1996.The album is featured in the book 1. Fiona Apples Tidal Promised Me The Unknown. She sounds older than she is (“Shadowboxer”), but points out that sexual abuse has a way of making you grow up fast (“The Child Is Gone”).
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A rap fan who’s said the only album she bought in 1997 was Wu-Tang Forever, Apple knows how to make herself ten feet tall (“Sleep to Dream”) while also expressing how small society has made her feel (“Sullen Girl”). And for them, it is serious.Īt the time, albums like Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom (and events like the all-female Lilith Fair tour) had brought a feminist edge to the mainstream. Everyone knows entertainment is bullshit-why take it so seriously? Apple holds her ground: Maybe middle-aged guys like you know that, she says, but middle-aged guys aren’t taking cues from MTV on how to look and act-teenage girls are. Tidal Fiona Apple 1996 9.0 By Jenn Pelly Genre: Rock Label: Sony Reviewed: AugUsing the poetry and jazz that formed her, Fiona Apple grapples eloquently with isolation. What’s the problem, Stern asks her: You’re young, you’re pretty, your first album-1996’s Tidal-is selling like crazy, and yet, you’re still angry. A few days after accepting her Best New Artist award at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards by calling the entertainment industry “bullshit,” a then 19-year-old Fiona Apple sat for an interview with the shock-radio personality Howard Stern.
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