Fetch The Bolt Cutters
by Fiona Apple
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Fiona Apple bestography
Fetch The Bolt Cutters is ranked 2nd best out of 5 albums by Fiona Apple on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Fiona Apple is The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do which is ranked number 329 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,048.
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Fetch The Bolt Cutters rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Johnnyo | 2020 by Esquire (To be deleted) | 21/49 | - |
| 2026 | mostlymor | Top 60 Music Albums of the 2020s | 51/60 | 3 |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2020s | 5/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | ornot27 | Top 97 Music Albums of the 2020s | 25/97 | 15 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 86 Music Albums of 2020 | 6/86 | 5 |
| 2026 |  ForegroundNoise | Top 50 Music Albums of the 2020s | 15/50 | 14 |
| 2026 |  lleon79 | Top 54 Music Albums of the 2020s | 29/54 | 10 |
| 2026 | pinkfreud1981 | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 91/100 | 10 |
| 2026 | Cheboygan74 | Top 75 Music Albums of 2020 | 59/75 | 1 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 99 Music Albums of 2020 | 65/99 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 622 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,982 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/16/2026 07:21 | cicadelic | 13,857 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/16/2026 11:38 | glebrus | 469 | 81/100 |
| ! | 07/07/2026 19:12 | RobinHall18 | 39 | 92/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 79.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 09/01/2026 16:00 in Monthly overall chart movements
imacgill 08/30/2026 20:12 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) BestEverAlbums 08/18/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5408): By VascoFetch The Bolt Cutters comments
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I listened to this the week it was released. I remember thinking how it sounds exactly how I felt after a month of doing crazy things like staying at home and washing my groceries. I’ve been a long time Fiona Apple listener. The creativity in this album is captivating. The instruments are raw and so are the vocals. It still incorporates much of the blues feel I’ve enjoyed from Fiona Apple, but in ways that depart from tradition. Definitely one of the best albums of 2020. In my top 10 of the year. (Edited)
Fetch the Bolt Cutters is not just an album showcasing Fiona Apple's deep engagement with such a pressing and timely subject as patriarchy and sexism. It also delivers a powerful message to the world during the 2020 pandemic: we must embrace her revolutionary, meticulously crafted ideas in her first studio album in eight years. Fetch is a contemporary masterpiece that demonstrates how music can be both aggressive and delicate, created entirely at home with barking dogs and clanging cans, reflecting the artist's raw musical sobriety. (Edited)
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This album is packed full of unique experimentation that makes the 50 minute run time fly by as there is so much to get stuck into. The instrumentation is diverse and performed to a very high level on this album with all of them playing a vital role. Musically, it is multi-layered and full of depth which allows us to be able to revisit lots of times before you have discovered everything and by the time you get to that point the songs have infected you and you feel almost compelled to listen again. She does a fantastic job at mixing experimentation with catchiness making it stand out but also make you feel comfortable with the music. Her song writing is brilliant as well and has really progressed from her early albums. Overall, another genius and enjoyable album from Fiona Apple that is always a pleasure to revisit and get lost in. (Edited)
JoaoMoreira 01/01/2023 22:03 | #292401
Great ideas in this record with average results. And that duality of great tracking vs extreme compression never helped an album to keep your attention until the end.
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