Fiona Apple's enveloping second album focuses on piano-based pop suited to intimate jazz cabarets. String arrangements add a sense of turmoil to the vaudevillian waltz "On the Bound" and a glamorous touch to the torchy ballad "Love Ridden", while paper-thin percussion clatters like fading footsteps on "Get Gone". Apple uses her unmistakable voice—a dusky alto bursting with wisdom, drama and pathos—to deliver a piercing emotional intelligence throughout these moody, layered songs.