I was younger then
Fiona Apple released fetch the bolt cutters last April, which may have singlehandedly saved my soul during this pandemic.
Her new cover of Sharon Van Etten’s love more may not have the same soul-saving effect but it is still lovely and perfect and maybe it can save something small inside me?
If you need to clean the house, especially the bathroom, may I recommend getting stoned and then listening to fetch the bolt cutters on your headphones. preferably when the house is empty or asleep. The rage (of cleaning, of the patriarchy), combined with the sweet release and relief this album provides, and then paired with weed… well what can I say, it all works together to turn the maddeningly mundane into sheer transcendence.
No, really, I swear.
Scrubbing away the urine left behind by your ungrateful disgusting children will not feel as crushing. Or maybe still crushing but less lonely in its crushingness?
Temper my hatred with peace.