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Universal acclaim- based on 1396 Ratings
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Mixed: 58 out of 1396
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Negative: 207 out of 1396
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Apr 21, 2020Sheer brilliance. Mesmerizing, challenging, nuanced, simultaneously minimalistic and cacophonous.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 19, 2020Easiest 10 I ever gave. An thrilling album that never lets go. It’s the only album I have heard in the last 20 years than I could say dethrones my all time favorite album ever. Sublime.
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Apr 20, 2020
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May 2, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020There is literally nothing wrong with this album. How could you not like this! The singing's unhinged, people hitting stuff, bluesy melodies, changeable instrumentation, tempo shifts...amazing!
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May 12, 2020Perfect album. Definitely the best album of the year thus far. My ears were constantly surprised by the sounds it heard from Fiona and her band. So many twists and turns, so much storytelling, and unconventional sounds and beats. Just delicious.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020Musically this album is a stunning, unsettling tour-de-force. If you're willing to be challenged, and to truly immerse yourself, you will be rewarded. It is not background music; it demands more and deserves it.
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Apr 18, 2020
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Apr 18, 2020Simply brilliant and gold, just like i was expecting. Fiona Apple's discography never disappoints you.
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May 27, 2020Uma lenda vivaaaaa!! Devolvam o 100 dela metacritic e apague os comentários de propósito desses haters.
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Apr 17, 2020Fiona never disappoints, this album is a **** masterpiece, raw, beautiful, unique and experimental like everything she does. 10/10 stream fetch the bolt cutters!!!!
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Jul 24, 2020Excelente album, con mucha razón es el mejor disco en criticas, y también por eso muchos comentarios negativos aquí de gentuza envidiosa y sin buen gusto. Sin duda uno de los mejores albums de todos los tiempos.
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Apr 17, 2020This is easily the best album of the year, I don’t know what could possibly top it
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Dec 10, 2020
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Apr 21, 2020
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Dec 7, 2020Este es uno de los álbumes que más me han sorprendido este año y no sabia nada al respecto ni de Fiona hasta que vi sus nominaciones al Grammy, la verdad siento que no me arrepiento de nada, es tan peculiar y diferente que me atrapó al instante, no sabría definir su género musical, pero definitivamente es superior a muchos otros lanzamientos de los últimos años.
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Apr 17, 2020Fiona is proving, onde again, that she is the greatest songwriter os the past 25 years.
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May 15, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020Fantastic album. Experimental, wild, outspoken, and feisty. I'm in love. If she's gonna keep making music this good, I'm okay with waiting 8 years for new music.
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Apr 15, 2021Perfect album from start to finish! So beautiful, mesmerising and endlessly inventive. It's appropriate to call it an instant classic.
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Apr 19, 2020After 8 years from her last album The Idler Wheel..., miss Fiona Apple made another masterpiece.
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Apr 18, 2020Best album of the year so far, absolutely no doubt about it. Give this album time and your full attention. There hasn't been anything quite like it in music.
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Apr 19, 2020This is such a great album, an instant classic. Great production, great lyrics, and great performance from Fiona on the whole record, just excellence. The production and her voice can go from sweet to insane in a heartbeat and the things she's talking about here shes doing it with such soul and in such a theatrically way that it feels like you listening to a play with amazing performances.
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Apr 18, 2020muy hermoso, delicioso, genial album, para todos los oidos, definitivamente este es el album del año!
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Oct 30, 2020We only had to wait 8 years but it was worth every single second. I don't know how but she exceeds expectations with the bar set at nothing less than Extraordinary. If you listen to this and don't like it I beg you to put on headphones and listen from beginning to end. It may take some a little time to find the comfort, but when you do, it's magnificent.
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Apr 17, 2020this is literally perfect. one for the ages. it's such a total testament to fiona apple's qualities as a songwriter, as a performer, and a s a genuinely brilliant writer. you feel every single second of this.
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Apr 17, 2020Fiona unbound, wild, and let loose. And she is here to save us. Bow down. Thank you Fiona.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Jul 4, 2021
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Apr 19, 2020Fetch the Bolt Cutters is a perfect body of work. Apple’s unbelievable songwriting makes you feel you’re with her, right now, in her living room and she’s telling you about all the people who did her wrong. And you just wanna listen. This is a brilliant album and Fiona’s best work so far.
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Apr 17, 2020Fiona ha demostrado evolucionar disco tras disco, año tras año. Definitivamente es una de las mejores letristas que ha dado la música. En este album podemos atestiguar el cómo Fiona utiliza los sentimientos complicados, ansiedad, preocupación y lo vuelca en una bomba de experiencias únicas.
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May 31, 2020Okay so i dismissed this album as some critic-pandering album that just wasn't for me. Then I actually listened to it. It wasn't that.
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Apr 19, 2020I did not know this girl but listen to her music and in sound it is an art, I can call that what is truly music, good work girl the album of the year so far
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Apr 17, 2020One of the best albums of 2020! It’s so emotional and brilliant the way that miss Apple writes her music. QUEEN OF EVERYTHING
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020Such a thrilling evolution of The Idler Wheel's sounds with a pen as sharp as ever and a constantly charming sense of playful inventiveness. I don't think I can quite pin down how exactly I feel about this. Wow.
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Apr 24, 2020Album of the Year... Simply stunning...
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Apr 18, 2020Amazing!!! Fiona is giving us everything we are needing!! Her voice is so powerful and her lyrics are so amazing as always.
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Apr 17, 2020It was amazing and breathtaking. Everybody moved!!!! Everybody said something!!!!!!
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Apr 17, 2020It's is exactly what I was expecting from her.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020What a **** great start for a new decade of music!! Fetch the Bolt Cutters was indeed worth the wait!!
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Apr 24, 2020Amazing album that I've not yet listened to
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Apr 18, 2020Oh my.. this is the one i didn't know i was waiting for!! Never heard of Fiona Apple before but after hearing this absolute masterpiece i have become a fan instantly. Already easily one of the best albums of the year!
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Apr 17, 2020Fetch The Bolt Cutters is a masterpiece. No one can express feelings and emotions like Fiona Apple. One of the greatest songwriters of our generation. Absolutely outstanding!!
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Apr 19, 2020Extremely well executed ideas, every song is meaningful and has intent. Visceral, unguarded emotion, intricate lyrics and production. Another masterpiece in Fiona Apple’s catalog, possibly even her best project. Well worth all the overwhelmingly cordial praise.
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Apr 17, 2020It's raw, it's unique, it's powerful, it's everything Fiona always was, but elevated, matured, refined. The lyrics are very particular to her experience and at the same time extremely universal. It's an album that demands attention. It's not easy, but it's necessary and it feels GOOD!
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Apr 18, 2020Fiona Apple just reinvented the entire concept of music. Unparalleled on every level.
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Apr 17, 2020talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular never the same.
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May 4, 2020Passionate, percussive, perfection! I love this. Every song is fantastic. Particular high points are Newspaper, Ladies, Heavy Balloon, and Shameika. Another classic in a Ling line of classics from Fiona.
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Oct 15, 2020
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Mar 3, 2021
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Apr 17, 2020A única coisa que eu posso dizer é que Shameika tinha razão. O resto é só pra bater o limite de carácteres.
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Apr 23, 2020This album is genuinely, incredibly rejuvenating. It is a masterpiece that is totally necessary right now, and has messages almost everyone can connect with.
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Dec 26, 2020Sin duda el mejor trabajo de la discografía de Fiona, es recomendable que si no te gusta el mainstream no lo escuches, porque este álbum no es para encerrarse en lo comercial, sino que lo experimental lo hace más timeless y orgánico, no se encuentra un álbum tan bueno como este dos veces, destacando los lyrics.
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May 21, 2020the queen of music!! the greatest THE GREATEST SONGWRITER ALIVE OR DEAD SHE IS THE MOMENT
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Jul 4, 2020It's about SONGWRITING. There are so many sharp hooks that multiple songs stick with you for months afterward. The Fiona we've known for decades is still here, with her magnificent, nearly poetic lyricism, sharp tongue, and legendary piano-playing. She yields a new set of weapons with this batch of tracks however; a raw, tactile sense of production.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Jul 11, 2020It's not an easy listen and doesn't fit fit the current sounds. What you get is a visceral, exciting album that is completely free in the choices it makes. Stunning.
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Jul 24, 2020the power that that has, the intelligence that that has, the clearance that that has, the access that that has, the influence that that has, the profile that that has, the international implications that that has
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Apr 22, 2020"Masterpiece" is enough. The perfection: IWYTLM, Shameika, Kick me under the table, newspaper, heavy balloon, cosmonauts.
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Apr 19, 2020A masterpiece lit rally a masterpiece how could u did not listening to this
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Apr 18, 2020Meu deus Fiona, é tudo que eu esperava e muito mais. A forma como é cru e sóbrio, como é diferente de tudo que você já fez e ainda assim mantém tua identidade...
Meu deus. Chorei ouvindo e chorei vendo o sucesso crítico desse novo projeto, parabéns mamãeeee -
May 29, 2020It’s a masterpiece, it reflects what Fiona is...one of the greatest artist of our time
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Jul 9, 2020Actually it`s 9/10. And the Idler Wheel is superior by melodies, more authenticwith more complex and less accessible melodies. New album got so much hype becouse of it`s long awaitning. But it obviosly not3/10 or 1/10 like some left here). Can't understand how patiently someone hates this album and Fiona which appears sooo rare. There might be most wise lyrics written for women.
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Apr 18, 2020This is such a huge statement as an album. The lyrics are brilliant, incredible instrumental, incredible production, incredible everything. It feels almost like a new statement for music in general, it got too much going on and everything just works incredibly well, nothing like it. It feels like a huge fresh air of a completely original, innovative and refined masterpiece.
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Apr 17, 2020A completely perfect album. Somehow improves upon the perfection of her past four. A stunning collection of feminist lyrics, production that’s experimental yet accessible + warm, and raw, unedited vocals.
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Apr 17, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 19, 2020Fetch the bolt cutters is what we needed in music right now and Fiona knows it, so she made a perfect album with cool lyrics and great sounds. It is amazing to listen. You have to. So what do you waiting for.
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Apr 22, 2020The lyrics are god tier. Songs flow so smoothly telling her story in a manner which is unheard of. Just legend things for her.
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Apr 17, 2020I knew she was gonna deliver a brilliant album but I never imagined it'd be this career topping masterpiece that is FETCH THE BOLT CUTTERS. Love you like crazy, Fiona. Always a pleasure being able to witness such extraordinary talent!
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May 12, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020Excelente, Fiona siempre ha hecho de su vida arte y este no fue la excepción
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Apr 18, 2020Epic and beautiful album, it's maybe her best. The way she use her voice like an instrument it's really incredible and the melodies are really catchy but at the same time very experimental. The lyrics are the best, the way she takes ur hands and shows u sorority and love for her pets, it's to far for me a escape from the violent world when we live.
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May 24, 2020Fiona got herself a new fan. Every song stands great on its own. the hype is real
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May 8, 2020VERY creative and unique. I didn't know what to expect because I never heard this artist, but know I admire her. She did a spectacular work!
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Aug 28, 2020o melhor álbum do ano sem sombra de duvida, fiona deu o nome dela e se não ganhar o aoty desse ano é marmelada
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May 23, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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May 21, 2020incredible. Her Magnum Opus and is clearly showing her talent. Deserves the 100 it got. A legend.
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Nov 29, 2020This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Apr 23, 2020
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Jun 16, 2020if you don't like this album, you don't like music.
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Apr 19, 2020Unique. Artful. Difficult. Experimental. All of that yet utterly listenable. It’s the kind of album you put the headphones on, lay on the floor with the lyric sheet and travel along to. She has called upon the spirits of many genres to create her own. It sounds like it took years to create and a day to record.
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Apr 17, 2020The best songwriter just made an amazing percussion-heavy, raw masterpiece. 8 years waiting and it was worth it.
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Apr 17, 2020Simply AMAZING! She's got so much to say and no one says it quite like she does. The music, lyrics and her voice are a perfect marriage of her brilliant art!
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Apr 19, 2020Such a good album everything perfect, and al the songs are perfect and so so so good
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Apr 17, 2020I can't even remember the last openin track that sounds too good as "I want you to love me", she shares with us the perfection of trying to be non perfect in a track. In the second one, she came with a type of progressive rock/alternative beat, that came inside my brain like an storm, the next, I doen't need to tell but i wanna... perfection
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Apr 18, 2020
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Apr 17, 2020The eight-year wait was absolutely worth it - Fiona's brilliant songwriting shines through on every single track on the album. It's so far removed from what conventional 'music' in 2020 sounds - her music and lyrics demand attention, and are so uniquely hers. By far the best album of the decade thus far.
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Apr 20, 2020es un excelente disco donde experimenta y demuestra que sigue siendo una de las mejores artistas de inventario musical
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Jul 25, 2020Perfeito incrível espetacular aclamadissimo memorável esse álbum é simplesmente incrível merece muito o AOTY esse ano isso se o Grammy não criar uma categoria especial pra esse ano especial
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Apr 18, 2020Fiona Apple nailed every aspect to this album and you can tell when listening to this that 8 years away from the music scene can produce incredible art for the future. Apple revived her entire career with this album and there is NOT one track on this album that lacks in lyrical quality, sonic quality, or vocal production. Easily one of the best albums to come out in 2020.
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Apr 23, 2020I freaking love this album! It's intense, abrasive,playful and weird. Fiona's voice has never sounded stronger or more confident as vocalist. Her lyrical wordplay is masterful and unique. This is definitely going to be in my top 5 albums of the year.
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Apr 17, 2020This is such a huge statement as an album. The lyrics are brilliant, incredible instrumental, incredible production, incredible everything. It feels almost like a new statement for music in general, it got too much going on and everything just works incredibly well, nothing like it. It feels like a huge fresh air of a completely original, innovative and refined masterpiece.
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Oct 2, 2020i swear on fiona's dogs i WILL hunt each and every f@660t who is giving this 0s without listening to it just because they're butthurt over this getting an 98 and their favorite basic pop albums barely getting 80s. gaga stans and taylor stans better get the f#ck out of here or im hacking ur account and giving 10s to all of fiona's albums. y'all were warned. it's on sight.
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Apr 17, 2020
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Apr 17, 20208 years allowed for a wonderful experimentation to become refined and purposeful.
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]