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BBC News By Mark Savage image copyrightGetty/Warner/Republic/Frank Ockenfels image captionClockwise from top left: Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, Fiona Apple, Dua Lipa, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers Fiona Apples fearless and experimental Fetch The Bolt Cutters has been named music critics favourite album of 2020. The urgent, rhythmically complex songs on the US singer-songwriters first record in eight years topped a "poll of polls" compiled by BBC News. Phoebe Bridgers sombre and s...

The 50 best albums of 2020, No 1: Fiona Apple – Fetch the Bolt Cutters Laura Snapes Once the dust had settled on the UK lockdown in spring, you started to hear a cautious kind of optimism. Maybe, on the other side of all this, a better world might be possible – less capitalist, kinder and more humane. Until then, there was Fetch the Bolt Cutters. When Fiona Apple released her fifth album in April, its title quickly became a meme for those feeling suffocated by their own four...