Fiona Apple Aims For A More Mature Sound On Next Album
AllStar · Dec '97
by Aidin Vaziri
| Fiona Apple says she will
return to the studio with producer Andrew Slater in January to begin work on the follow-up
to her 1996 platinum-selling Work Group debut, Tidal. While Apple
says she has many ideas for the new project, she asserts she will not enter the studio
with any full-fledged songs. "I don't like to have
everything figured out down to the last note," the 20-year old
singer/songwriter tells us. "As I figured out during the
making of the last album, the first plan you usually have is a moot point. I have
some ideas in my head, and I just want to see what goes on." The next single from Tidal -- the fourth release -- "Never is a Promise" was released this week. The song is accompanied by a video directed by Stephane Sednaoui, who also oversaw Apple's award-winning "Sleep To Dream" clip. The singer says the new material will sound more mature than the already more-mature-than-her-age sounding material on Tidal, most of which she wrote while still in high school. "I'd like for [Tidal] to be thought of as a demo tape that got released," Apple says. "I'm far more corrupt now than when I made that album. I just didn't know anything. It was naive." Apple is currently wrapping up an extensive promotional tour for Tidal. fin |