Fiona Apple – When The Pawn… (CD)

Fiona Apple arrived at her second album carrying the weight of a music industry that had already tried to flatten her into a simpler story. Recorded with producer Jon Brion, "When the Pawn..." pushed deeper into the jazz-inflected, rhythmically restless territory she'd sketched on "Tidal," with Apple's piano and voice doing the heavy lifting on compositions that refused easy resolution. The full album title remains one of the longest in chart history, a poem she wrote in response to a music critic.