Fiona Apple shares first new original song since 2020

Fiona Apple shares first new original song since 2020

Fiona Apple is back with her first proper new song — not a cover or a feature — since her 2020 album Fetch the Bolt Cutters.

“Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” arrives not only as a single, but with a music video to boot. The track was written in support of mothers who have been impacted by the broken cash bail system. To learn more, you can visit Fiona’s new Let Her Go Home website, which also features a message from her about the cause.

Fiona had this to say on the matter:

I was a court watcher for over two years. In that time, I took notes on thousands of bond hearings. Time and time again, I listened as people were taken away and put in jail, for no other reason than that they couldn’t afford to buy their way free. It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them. For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership. I hope that this song, and the images shared with me, can help to show what is at stake when someone is kept in pretrial detention. I give this song in friendship and respect to all who have experienced the pain of pretrial detention and to the women of the group’s leadership who have taught me so much and whom I truly love.

Check out the track below:

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