Kelly Tucker November 30th, 2019 - 12:09 PM
Fiona Apple released a new track called, “Your Molecular Structure” along with The Tippo Allstars. Apple lends her vocals against a jazz infused piano backdrop in this short one minute and 41 second song. The track is one of many included in the album, If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison, a compilation that celebrates the late jazz pianist Mose Allison. The lyrics include, “Your molecular structure baby, me and you. Your cellular organization is really something choice. Electromagnetism bout’ to make me lose my voice. Got all my circuits open, my systems reading gold. Your cellular organization baby, stop the show.”
In honor of Mose Allison, Iggy Pop, Frank Black, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple and more joined in to honor this great American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter who had a passion for telling stories through his music. He was recognized for playing a unique mix of blues and modern jazz together.
Apple hopes to release her first new album in 2020 which has been over 7 years since her last album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, released in 2012. She said in an interview with Vulture about the new album, “It’s probably its own thing. But I don’t know how to articulate that. It’s like, if you’ve been working out every day for a month and then nobody sees you, they see the difference, but if you’ve been doing it all the time, you don’t really see the difference. I can’t really know the growth or the evolution or anything like that in what I do, because I’m in the middle of it.”
Earlier this year, Apple posted a home video with her dog talking about recording new music. She says while her dog licks her face, “Are we recording? Are we doing vocals?… I think we are.” She then continues to say, “OK, we need to get back to work now…. You don’t need to go to a studio…. You could just do stuff in your house, and then nobody can tell you what to do.” Apple had big hits years ago with songs like, “Criminal” which has over 30.7 million views on YouTube and “Shadowboxer” with over 7.5 million views on YouTube.
If You’re Going to The City Tracklist:
1. Taj Mahal – Your Mind Is On Vacation
2. Robbie Fulks – My Brain
3. Jackson Browne – If You Live
4. The Tippo Allstars featuring Fiona Apple – Your Molecular Structure
5. Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite – Nightclub
6. Chrissie Hynde – Stop This World
7. Iggy Pop – If You’re Going to the City
8. Bonnie Raitt – Everybody’s Crying Mercy
9. Loudon Wainwright III – Ever Since the World Ended
10. Richard Thompson – Parchman Farm
11. Peter Case – I Don’t Worry About A Thing
12. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin – Wild Man On the Loose
13. Anything Mose! – The Way of the World
14. Frank Black – Numbers On Paper
15. Amy Allison with Elvis Costello – Monsters of the Id
Photo Credit: Raymond Flotat
