This mind this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways!!!!! I've read my fair share or more of interviews with Fiona Apple and while she can be cringey/pretentious/annoying at times, I really think she scores highly on being intelligent and talented enough to far outweigh it. This could have been another album penned by a teenager that is followed by not-so-great work because they seemingly used up all their good ideas, but I think her work continued to be great, which makes this shine even more. "Pale September" feels like a little transportation capsule every time I listen to it and I'm sure I don't need to talk about "Criminal" here. However..........as an album, I think some of the tracks being so excellent means that tracks like "Sullen Girl" and "The First Taste" wind up feeling forgettable even though the listen-through experience is still good. 4.5 rounding up