Prep your ears and minds for a feast as Craig & James return with another music-themed edition of fSobriety, each making the case for an artist of their choice as an indispensible force in the contemporary landscape. 

Craig dives deep into the work, aesthetics & background of indefatigable UK rap titan Little Simz. It’s an epic journey that ultimately places Simz at the centre of a burgeoning social & cultural moment charged with the promise of transformation.

Meanwhile, James presents an impassioned case for a long-time favourite: inimitable art-pop genius Fiona Apple. Key aspects of Apple’s audacious creativity are considered in a portrait of an artist first vilified and later vindicated for her relevance.

All this PLUS bonus discussions on recent miscellaneous cultural happenings, and the usual laughs and silliness. Not ‘arf!

This podcast is brought to you by the official Allen-Apple Spectrum.

 TIMINGS:

**Craig fangirls about Little Simz**
00:02:45 – Background & beginnings
00:29:45 – A Curious Tale of Trials and Persons
01:14:00 – Stillness in Wonderland
01:51:18 – Grey Area
02:28:00 – Introvert

**BAR BREAK** 02:33:00
02:34:50 – riffSobriety: Crypta/Crypt Crawler
02:40:00 – TV chat: Invincible, Sound of Metal, Who Killed Sara?, Diablero, Exterminate all the Brutes
02:51:42 – pressFsobriety
02:54:35 – fDemocracy: George Floyd murder trial

**James fangirls about Fiona Apple**
03:00:00 – Tidal
03:18:30 – When the Pawn...
03:23:00 – Extraordinary Machine
03:35:00 – The Idler Wheel & beyond


Little Simz:
Dead Body - https://youtu.be/44Zvdaa5eWc
Picture Perfect - https://youtu.be/rIVGtd5kjsI
Good For What - https://youtu.be/GNwCcxZcDds
Offence - https://youtu.be/iOjyGr01VZ4
Venom - https://youtu.be/Kh8Q2iytzns
Introvert - https://youtu.be/hxfGQ2AJHGk

Fiona Apple:
Criminal - https://youtu.be/FFOzayDpWoI
Fast as You Can - https://youtu.be/NbxqtbqyoRk
Not About Love - https://youtu.be/u09s0uz0tEU
Come On & Get It - https://youtu.be/u09s0uz0tEU
Shameika - https://youtu.be/yM63Tzv-uZg
Fetch the Bolt Cutters - https://youtu.be/k3Io08w2XW8

Fiona Apple's acceptance speech at the 1997 Video Music Awards
https://youtu.be/42gNkySFycA

Crypta - From the Ashes
https://youtu.be/rvYn45PfdcY

Frantz Fanon archive
https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/index.htm

Remembering Harry Uzoka by Linda Adey
https://tinyurl.com/5mj9cu5a

McKay Felt, visual artist
https://www.visualatelier8.com/art/2020/9/mckay-felt

Angry Black Hoemo on Twitter: @angryblkhoemo

All music referenced on our podcast can be found on the fSobriety Jukebox playlist:
https://tinyurl.com/y5gnm9hs