I know the name Fiona Apple tends to make most men shrink. ...

I know the name Fiona Apple tends to make most men shrink. Something about powerful female singers either makes us guys adulate them or hate them. I admit it. I hate Tori Amos’s music. I do. Now, don’t storm the castle. She is a fine, amazing person, but I just don’t click with it. Now Fiona Apple, that is a whole other game.

Her new album is simply one of the greatest albums to drop in the last 10 years. This is a woman bearing it all with an impossibly titled album: The Idler Wheel is wiser...