Fiona Apple Returns With First New Tune in 5 Years, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Residence)”: Pay attention

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 lately observing bail hearings for CourtWatch PG, a Maryland neighborhood combating racism within the courtroom and dealing in direction of “abolitionist futures.” Apple wrote the track after witnessing the affect—and the disproportionate affect on Black girls—of a cash-bail system that jails moms who can’t afford bail with out trial, separating them from their dependents. Beneath, watch the video, which collages footage from girls who’ve skilled pretrial detention.

In a press release, Apple describes taking notes on 1000’s of bond hearings:

Time and time once more, I listened as folks have been taken away and put in jail, for no different cause than that they couldn’t afford to purchase their approach free. It was notably exhausting 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 assist 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 stored 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 really love.