She doesn’t look as hot as she did in the 90′s, but that’s probably part of the plan. Fiona Apple is the quintessential tortured artist that would rather you never even look at her..just listen to her painful purge of music.

And I don’t mean that in a negative way. I LOVE Fiona Apple. And I love her new stuff…The Huffington Post has a rundown of who critics are receiving her first album in 7 years and it’s amazing.

This is my favorite one and I totally agree:

Entertainment Weekly was similarly impressed, slapping an A rating on the disc. “Like Apple herself,” writes Melissa Maerz, “it’s highly confessional and creative and temperamental, and will probably make you fall crazy in love.”

“You have to give yourself over to The Idler Wheel in a way you probably haven’t done since you were a kid, before jobs and other adult responsibilities claimed the long hours you spent curled up by your stereo speakers,” Maerz continues. “It isn’t easy listening. But it’s worth it.

Here’s one of the songs off her new album The Idler Wheel.