Tidal Tracklist
Fiona Apple’s debut album, Tidal, released in 1996 when she was 18 years old.
The album spawned six singles, including “Criminal,” a top-40 hit in the United States. Apple later won a Grammy for the song.
The video for “Sleep to Dream” won an MTV Video Music Award, where Fiona made her famous “This world is bullshit” acceptance speech.
The album’s name, Tidal, is a play on how similar it sounds to the word, “title.”
“Tidal” Q&A
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What has the media said about the album?
NPR ranked the record as the #125 greatest album made by a female artist, saying:
Fiona Apple unfurled her debut album with a roll of thunder, in the form of ‘Sleep to Dream.’ Over the course of Tidal’s ten songs, the clouds may part, but the threat of a storm is always on the horizon. Just 19 years old when Tidal was released, Apple put a voice to the crushing swirl of emotions familiar to so many teenagers, a heady combination of disdain and uncertainty, barely-contained rage and rebellious independence. As it turned out, her songwriting sprang from a past checkered with trauma and deep pain, which she plumbed to write songs right at the edge of — or just past — what many listeners were comfortable with. What’s remarkable about this album, especially twenty years later, is its maturity. It doesn’t read like a sullen teenager’s diary. Instead it’s a declaration, a willful confession, and a mission statement from a woman wrestling power back from her demons and trying to own all the parts of herself that make her human.
