Fiona Apple Shares First Original Song in 5 Years, Hear: “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”

Fiona Apple has released “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home),” her first original song since her 2020 record, Fetch the Bolt Cutters.
Made in support of the Free Black Mamas DMV collective, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)” delves into the plight of women who are wrongfully incarcerated. “At homе she’s got two kids and gramma needs her care/ Who pack the lunch and give meds if she’s in jail and not there? / They already took the only daddy that they ever had / Shot him then put a gun near him that he never had / Wouldn’t let him go home /Wouldn’t let him go home / Wouldn’t let him go home,” she sings in the heartbreaking chorus.
“I was a court watcher for over two years. In that time, I took notes on thousands of bond hearings. Time and time again, I listened as people were taken away and put in jail, for no other reason than that they couldn’t afford to buy their way free,” Apple wrote in a statement about the track. “It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them.”