Personnel: Fiona Apple (vocals, piano, celesta, keyboard bass, percussion, loops, dancer); Seedy (guitar, bouzouki, autoharp, marimba, drums, percussion, dancer); Sebastian Steinberg (guitar, acoustic bass).
Audio Mixer: Dave Way.
Recording information: NBB Studio, New York, NY; Stanley Recordings, Venice, Los Feliz, CA.
Fiona Apple previewed three songs from her upcoming fourth studio album, which boasts a typically enigmatic title in The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw, And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, to a wildly enthusiastic audience at 2012's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
