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Rollout:

Lot's of good music coming from @Epic_Records in the next few weeks. Stay tuned music fans. Welcome back Fiona! #BeEpic — LA Reid (@LA_Reid) January 22, 2012

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Promo

The songs

🍎 Released on June 19 2012, 7 years afteris Fiona's boldest, and barest album to date.Fiona (listed as "Feedy" in the credits) produced the album under the radar along with her touring drummer Charley Drayton ("Seedy"). Her record company found out she had an album done when she handed it to them. This freedom is manifested in her uninhibited approach to its creation.🍎 Piano-driven arrangements and intricate melodies are still at the core, they are however decked with unorthodox percussion and homespun sounds that articulate the tension, and illustrate Fiona's psyche. In addition to creating loops, playing percussion, piano, and keyboards, Fiona's production credits include "field recordist", "truck stomper", "dance partner", and "Daredevil thighs".is a journey inside Fiona's mind as she makes sense of her inner-workings, waxes poetically about exorcising her pain, sees herself through others, then reconciles everything with her brain. This post is arevisit of the record, mostly written in Fiona's own words, featuring her drawings and writings.The album was finished in 2011, but Fiona delayed the release until her label found a new president in 2012, because she "didn't want her work to be mishandled amid corporate disarray." When she finally surprised Epic executives with it, they asked if she thought the record was really finished; if there wasn't another song, a hit perhaps, still forthcoming. She told them it was finished.Apple's camp didn't want bells and whistles for her return.A small tour was announced in Spring 2012.Ahead of her first performance, the album and its title were uploaded on her Facebook page on March 8th.Footage of Fiona performing live from her first tour in 5 years intensified the anticipation.She premiered "Every Single Night", "Anything We Want", and "Valentine" at SXSW on March 15th."Every Single Night" was posted on her Soundcloud page on April 23rd.The music video was directed by Joseph Cahill in Paris, France and premiered on June 10th.Fiona appeared on Late Night on June 18th, her first TV appearance since 2006!She was interviewed by some guy, before performing "Anything We Want" and a cover of "Let Me Roll It" with The Roots.The album came out the next day and she was off on her 27-city second leg of the tour!Fiona had some great interviews this era, I recommend checking the first 4 later for further reading.was critically acclaimed, and debuted at number 3 (her highest debut yet), selling 72,000 copies in its first week. It received a 2013 Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album ( not that she cares )."Hot Knife" was the second and final visual released in July 2013. It was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson who was also responsible for "Paper Bag", "Limp", "Fast As You Can", and "Across The Universe"."Jonathan" was named after Jonathan Ames whom she was dating at the time.Fiona first played this song at Largo on Valentine's Day, 2007. She said at the time that the song was about a woman she admired and would like to be more like. In her Vulture profile, the lady is mentioned among some of Fiona's relationships: "There was a younger girl a few months ago, a beautiful dancer with whom she climbed onto her roof to watch the sky at various times of day and night.""While you were watching someone else / I stared at you and cut myself."The text below is lifted from the writer who hung out and got high with her in her Vulture profile.Similar reads: When The Pawn... turns 18! Sources: How Listen: Spotify