Julia Jacklin

FIONA APPLE

Extraordinary Machine EPIC, 2005

This record came to me at a really crucial moment in life, when you’re on the threshold between listening to Top 40 radio and what your parents like, and figuring out what speaks to you as an individual. I heard the title track when I was 13, at my first boyfriend’s house. I remember thinking, ‘Wow, I have never heard anything like this before.’ I hadn’t really paid that much attention to lyrics before, it was all about melodies and sounds for me, but some of the lines just punched out at me. I was like,