Music

Listen to a new Fiona Apple song, "Werewolf"

by Tyler Munro

Fiona Apple’s “Werewolf” is a song with a story. The latest to be released off her upcoming The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do, Apple tells Pitchfork that the track was inspired by war sounds from a movie she was watching.

“I liked it, but I couldn’t use it from the movie,” Fiona said. “I spent literally the next year trying to recreate that sound,” she says before explaining how she finally found the sound she was looking for… and how she looked a bit crazy trying to capture it.

As she tells it, Apple had just gotten out of the shower when she heard kids screaming at a nearby elementary school. Grabbing the first thing she could find, which turned out to be a pair of pants with a split in the ass, she says she ran to the elementary school with her “recording thing.”

“I was standing there looking like a crazy person, watching these kids. They were jumping with balloons between their legs, trying to make them pop,” she says. “In the actual song, we had to take out all the balloon pops because they sounded like gunshots. But it was so perfect.”

The sample in question is just over two minutes into “Werewolf,” which you can listen to below.

The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve you more than Ropes will ever do comes out on June 19th.