Fiona Apple Returns With First New Song in 5 Years, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”: Listen

Fiona Apple has launched her first track since Fetch the Bolt Cutters. “Pretrial (Let Her Go Residence),” a protest anthem advocating for jailed moms who can’t afford bail, attracts on Apple’s expertise in recent times observing bail hearings for CourtWatch PG, a Maryland neighborhood preventing racism within the courtroom and dealing in direction of “abolitionist futures.” Apple wrote the track after witnessing the impression—and the disproportionate impression on Black girls—of a cash-bail system that jails moms who can’t afford bail with out trial, separating them from their dependents. Under, watch the video, which collages footage from girls who’ve skilled pretrial detention.

In a press release, Apple described taking notes on hundreds of bond hearings:

Time and time once more, I listened as individuals have been taken away and put in jail, for no different purpose than that they couldn’t afford to purchase their manner free. It was notably arduous to listen to moms and caretakers get taken away from the individuals who depend upon them. For the previous 5 years, I’ve been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I’ve been fortunate to have the ability to witness the tales of girls who fought for and gained their freedom with the tireless and loving help of the management. I hope that this track, and the pictures shared with me, will help to point out what’s at stake when somebody is saved in pretrial detention. I give this track in friendship and respect to all who’ve skilled the ache of pretrial detention and to the ladies of the group’s management who’ve taught me a lot and whom I actually love.