Update on the New Fiona Apple Album

[Michael]

Fiona Apple Retools Her Leaked Album

Fiona Apple, the smoky-voiced singer whose unreleased third album turned into a cause célèbre for her fervent fans and was leaked online, has recorded new versions of its songs and plans to release the album on Oct. 4, according to people involved with the recording.

The album, "Extraordinary Machine," is the Grammy-winning artist's first studio CD in six years, and is likely to be one of the industry's most closely watched albums at the start of the preholiday rush. The CD may also place Ms. Apple and her label, Epic Records, in the unusual position of watching how fans and critics judge her new release against the leaked versions of her earlier recordings of the same songs. The 12-song CD includes nine new versions of material that had circulated on unlicensed Internet file-swapping networks, two previously leaked songs and one brand-new one, "Parting Gift."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/arts/music/15appl.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1124640085-JrUHAw5ppXB464uoNthzMA

Two of the new songs are on iTunes now.

[BigWaxJesus]

The leaked version was really good. It wasn't anything like her first two albums.

[ynaffit]

i posted "fiona apple" in the name game thread just before i scrolled down to see this thread. weird. :surprised

the leaked songs are definitely different, mostly not in good ways, though i like a few of them.

[Dirty Martini]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:hamster:

[Michael]

the leaked songs are definitely different, mostly not in good ways, though i like a few of them.

I didn't really like them either but I haven't listened to most of them more than once. Sometimes that stuff takes a while to grow on me. I'm hoping that's the case.

[Hummus!]

I think "Not About Love" and "Waltz" (the leaked versions) are two of the finest things she's ever committed to being undone! Although if you go to her web page: http://www.fiona-apple.com/, you can hear/see snippets of the new versions of at least "Not About Love" and "Parting Gift"

[Azalea]

I'm really looking forward to this album. I'm a big fan.

[Sevenseas]

About the leaked album, I think that one track title from it, "Better version of me", is quite fitting.