Fiona Apple has been around for so long that it’s easy to forget just how young she was when she hit mainstream success. Apple was only 17-years-old when her debut album Tidal spawned the mega-hit singles “Shadowboxer” and “Criminal”, and not very far removed from the harrowing attacks of her childhood. On her latest album, the first in seven years (titled with a full-length poem, as is her fashion), Apple looks back on the headrush of early fame and concludes she stood “no chance of growing up”.

It’s hard being Billy Corgan, as he is continually telling us. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman’s recent years have been defined by ever-more-bizarre public appearances and statements, as he formed a wrestling league, become deeply involved in new-age mysticism, and first made an appeal to his former bandmates and then told them, in no uncertain terms, to fuck off. This all seemed in some way a reaction to the Pumpkins’ declining reputation in the annals of rock history.