I've heard of her but was not familiar with her work. She's compared to Tori Amos and the likes (and I really like Amos or O'Connor for example) but it feels like a more "pop" version of the aforementioned artists. It's good, but I wasn't blown away as I hoped I would be.
I was initially expecting this debut album from Fiona Apple (no relation to Tim Apple) to be along the lines of other singer/songwriters like Alannis Morrisette and Tori Amos, but I ended up preferring this to both of those. This is actually closer to a shoe-gaze sound (with the occasional torch song) and has considerable depth and complexity to it. I then found out that she was just 18 when this album was released and had written the songs during her teenage years. Wowzers!