Tidal

by Fiona Apple

Tidal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 July 1996
  • Label: Work
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 51:36
  • Community rating: 3.99/5 from 23 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Fiona Apple's stunning debut, 'Tidal', showcases a preternaturally mature fusion of alternative piano rock, jazz pop, and chamber pop. The album is deeply introspective and melancholic, marked by her incredibly poetic lyricism and passionate, soulful vocal delivery.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, soulful, percussive, lounge, confessional, folk, piano, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Sleep to Dream (4:08)
  2. Sullen Girl (3:54)
  3. Shadowboxer (5:24)
  4. Criminal (5:41)
  5. Slow Like Honey (5:56)
  6. The First Taste (4:46)
  7. Never Is a Promise (5:54)
  8. The Child Is Gone (4:14)
  9. Pale September (5:50)
  10. Carrion (5:43)

Credits

  • Fiona Apple - primary artist, songwriter [songs written by], vocals, piano, vocals, piano, organ [optigan]
  • Jordan Harris - a&r
  • Fred Woodward - art direction
  • Valerie Pack - coordinator [production coordinator]
  • Brian Scheuble - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Claude Achille - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Jim Wirt - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Niko Bolas - engineer [additional engineering]
  • Alan Sanderson - engineer [assistant]
  • Troy Gonzales - engineer [assistant]
  • HK Management - management
  • Ted Jensen - mastered by
  • Tom Banghart - mixed by [assisted by]
  • Nathaniel Goldberg - photography by
  • Andrew Slater - producer
  • Mark Endert - recorded by, mixed by
  • Dan Rothchild - bass
  • Matt Chamberlain - drums, percussion
  • Jon Brion - guitar, vibraphone, piano [tack], guitar, vibraphone, dulcitone, marimba, chamberlin [chamberlain], guitar, vibraphone, piano [tack], marimba, harp, organ [optigan], guitar, vibraphone, chamberlin [chamberlain], harp
  • Patrick Warren - piano, chamberlin [chamberlain]
  • Greg Richling - bass
  • Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar
  • Danny Frankel - drums, percussion
  • Rob Laufer - guitar
  • Sara Lee - bass
  • George Black - drum programming
  • Van Dyke Parks - arranged by [strings]
  • Larry Corbett - cello
  • Evan Wilson - viola
  • Ralph Morrison - violin [1st]
  • Claudia Parducci - violin [2nd]
  • Amber Maggart - harmony vocals

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