Fiona Apple won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album for Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
Released in 2020, Fetch the Bolt Cutters was Fiona Apple's fifth studio album and her first collection of new songs in nearly eight years. The album was recorded largely at Apple's home in Venice Beach, California, giving it an unusually intimate and percussive sound. Its title comes from a phrase heard in the television series The Fall.
At the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021, the album won Best Alternative Music Album. Its nominees included Beck's Hyperspace, Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher, Brittany Howard's Jaime, and Tame Impala's The Slow Rush. The award recognized the album's distinctive vocal delivery, unconventional rhythms, and experimental production.
The year can cause confusion: the album was released in 2020, but the Grammy ceremony took place in 2021. Apple had previously won the same category for When the Pawn... in 1998, making Fetch the Bolt Cutters another major achievement in her influential alternative-pop career.