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Universal acclaim- based on 1396 Ratings
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Positive: 1,131 out of 1396
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Mixed: 58 out of 1396
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Negative: 207 out of 1396
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Apr 17, 2020Meh. It's good if you're already a fan of Fiona Apple. Unlikely to convince you if you're not.
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Apr 28, 2020
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Apr 21, 2020Obviously it's just my opinion, but really, music shouldn't be this much hard work to listen to. Some melody here or there and a few less discordant notes wouldn't go astray.
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May 2, 2020I have enjoyed the early releases by Fiona Apple but this release did nothing for me. No emotional connection, no earworms, no groove to nod my head to. I just didn't grab my ears.
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Apr 17, 2020I don't hear the full album but,I dislike,it's boring...her voice is good..
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Apr 17, 2020I don't know why it gets so many good reviews, It seems kinda unenjoyable and overrated
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Apr 21, 2020
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May 3, 2020Lyrics! Lyrics are good, for sure. But it all sounds messy and faded. I'm obsessed with non-Pop music (Florence+Machine, the 1975, FKA Twigs and other), but this stuff left me unsatisfied and disappointed. The best music album ever by Metacritic score, but it's not looked and sound like that. Want through album once I realized that this is kind of experience I will never want to have again.
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Jul 4, 2020
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Aug 28, 2020
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May 30, 2020Me pareció muy básico la verdad, tenia muchas más expectativas, no fue como esperaba me decepsiono bastante
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Jul 23, 2020I've tried to like it but i just couldn't, it doesn't make me feel anything
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Aug 20, 2023It's a good album, but it's not for me. Although I didn't get bored while listening to the album in general, I wished the album to end as soon as possible. If I listen to it again in the future, maybe it will be for me with that mindset.
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Apr 17, 2020For cult fans I could maybe understand it but this is just not very good in the slightest.
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Apr 19, 2020The sound and production is cool and Fiona’s voice is good, but the «songs» lack punch and direction. Jesus; the critics fight to be the first to hail anything that is a bit different, we know that, but this hype is ridicilous. Hipster-music for people who don’t really like music.
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Apr 23, 2020there are some interesting songs but overall its a pretentious and indulgent noise collage for militant cultists.
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May 29, 2020I didn’t listen to this album but I can tell it’s very bad. Idk how this high school drama teacher got a record deal
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Jul 24, 2020Not my vibe. Too alternative for my personal liking. Couldn't really take a good listen to it.
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Dec 5, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 24, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 2, 2022
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Apr 26, 2020Tremendamente sobrevalorado, original si, pero inaudible y pretencioso. No entiendo las críticas aquí recibidas.
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Apr 18, 2020Original, that’s for sure. There’s nothing else out there that sounds like that... but there is a reason for it.
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Aug 26, 2020Cannot get into this album. Her music is too cold and intellectual and quirky for my taste. If the music does not move me emotionally in some way, then forget it.
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May 20, 2020well it's always refreshing seeing or hearing someone acting and talking like a kid, when the person's actually around 40yo. isn't it? duh.
unfortunately the ineptitude of behaving won't take the wrinkles away.
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May 1, 2020
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Apr 18, 2020Meh. Doesn’t sound like anything I’d want to listen to again after one go.
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Apr 23, 2020This album Is like that glass of water in the middle of a modern art museum. Some pretentious critics praise it and everybody Is following the hype...But still just a glass of water. I bet 1 dollar no one who give It a 10 will listen this mess in a week. Pretentious and boring i give It 1 just for The effort.
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May 30, 2020Its not good on any way shape or forme . No artistic vision . Not good production not good vocals lazy lyrics . A five year old could do better
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Jun 1, 2020
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Aug 7, 2020
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Jul 24, 2020I decided to give it a try after seeing all the praise being given to this album and I have to say, it's so boring. I love Fiona, Criminal is one of my jems but it's not nearly as good as I expected.
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Jul 24, 2020I find some very similar sounds this seems very repetitive no innovation in fiona
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May 4, 2020
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Jun 29, 2020PLEASE. THIS album is something bored. The World don't needs It!!!! PLEASE!
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Apr 18, 2020
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Jul 8, 2020
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Nov 1, 2020
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Jul 24, 2020I DONT LIKE THIS, HER VOICE IS SO DISG*STING AND THE ALBUM IS SO BORING WTF IS THIS
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Apr 28, 2020Tremendo flop sobrevalorado por sus 3 fans, ya ni melosentada tuvo tanta sobrevaloración
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Dec 8, 2020Fiona decides to speak and, of course,it’s a big,drawn out to do . It’s a damn fine album. Led Zeppelin iv ? No,not even close. But she does release some really decent tunes here.
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Aug 28, 2020Si te gusta Fiona Apple, este álbum te va a gustar. Pero si no eres fan de esta artista, posiblemente te termine cansando y hasta pareciendo aburrido. No puedo entender cómo tiene tantas críticas positivas, pero sin duda sí que puedo entender por qué las pocas ventas que ha logrado cosechar tanto en Estados Unidos como en el resto del mundo. Decepcionante.
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Oct 30, 2020Hot garbage, just a bunch of random noise, nothing of actual quality, should have been kept in the drafts
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Apr 17, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 28, 2020I thought it would be fun to go through some of the more asinine and truly senseless "reviews", [ https://bit.ly/3f1giEK ] since there really are so many that display what makes this album one of the strongest of the year so far.
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Apr 17, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 23, 2020a bad album, does she out of tune and have the courage to release it? Totally inaudible, this is an album that can be thrown away, sucks and is totally rotten, I don't know how there are people who have the courage to rate this terrible album with a 100
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Apr 28, 2020Here it is - the most overrated album of all time. The ultimate definition of musical mediocrity that can be sold because talentless journalists said it`s good.
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May 8, 2020A bad bad album. Can't dance to it. Can't nod your head to the rhythm. Dogs barking through random beats does not make a good song. The only time this music could ever be played is in front of an abstract improv. Even then, people would be waiting for it to be over. Someone had to pay off the critics for their reviews or they aren't real people.
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May 9, 2020
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May 16, 2020
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May 16, 2020Horrible sounds, all **** don't know why this album gets a 100, don't make sense
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Jun 16, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jun 9, 2020This is noise and I don’t mean that in any way that’s good.How have critics managed to overate this collection of sounds.It feels like she tried to recreate all of her albums in one. The result is not so pleasing!
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Jun 10, 2020I very much do not understand why critics are all over this album, I mean the production is one of the worst ever and the vocals seem a little unfinished and unpolished but critics are saying the rawness of the album is amazing.
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Jul 9, 2020Sinceramente, le di muchas oportunidades a este álbum y hasta ahora no entiendo como pueden alabar su deficiente composición musical, las letras son las que protagonizan este proyecto, pero la música va más allá de lyrics, si quería transmitir su mensaje sin interés de armonía, un podcast basta y sobra, no comprendo tanta devoción a un álbum tan malo
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Jul 24, 2020No me gusto el álbum. Simplemente siento que Fiona tiene mejores propuestas. Se quedo corta de creatividad.
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Aug 7, 2020It does not deserve all these good reviews, the album is a major flop from this artist.
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Aug 25, 2020Overrated. This is not good music structures, not good vocals or cool sound of instrument.
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Aug 28, 2020It is boring, repetitive, it leaves you without wanting to listen to it again,
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Aug 29, 2020It is boring, repetitive, it leaves you without wanting to listen to it again
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Sep 5, 2020A masterpiece. If you do not like this album, i can't ever trust you with anything. Fi saved me from the mess that is this pandemic! It's unhinged, it's angsty, it's full of flavour! It's an album that only FIONA could make!
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Sep 26, 2020I'm sorry, but this album seems so confusing. It probably be a pure work of art, but only for a art museum. People can't enjoy this kind of things at any situation.
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Oct 23, 2020I gave it a try but just couldn't even finish listening. Maybe it's just not my taste.
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Oct 30, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 30, 2020Am I the only person who feels like critics were paid to give this album perfect 100 scores? It didn't do anything for me.
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Nov 21, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Dec 11, 2020worst and boring. wth is dis. make smth better sis. FN was way better. But at least better than Positions and Changes.
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Feb 26, 2021i really didnt like it bc its so bad like idk its just bad i would like to have reparations for this pls
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Jan 23, 2021Es muy experimental, para mi es horrible! Para gustos los colores pero no es para mi.
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Mar 19, 2022I didnt like this album. Its just something unnecessary that produces no sensations in my mind
Awards & Rankings
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Aug 18, 2020Guttural, soft, cacophonous, and poetic, Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a reminder of Apple’s genius and that we are all interconnected, one people, existing in a pulse.
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Classic Rock MagazineJul 6, 2020Forget the bolt cutters, Apple's already shed her last shackle. [Summer 2020, p.87]
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UncutMay 22, 2020Fetch The Bolt Cutters is mostly the soundtrack of liberation, not recrimination, with Apple's piano keys, battering on the walls and barking dogs as its percussive, beating heart. [Jul 2020, p.27]