This month, the Fiona Apple album Tidal is on sale for only $5 in MP3 format.

Tidal marks the 1996 debut of notorious wild child Fiona Apple. Although just 17 when she recorded it, Tidal betrayed a depth and sensitivity far beyond her youth, establishing her as a singer-songwriting force to be reckoned with, and would set her light years above pop rock peers like Jewel (who sounded like she was reciting from her 10th grade poetry class).

Songs like “Sleep to Dream,” “Criminal,” and “The First Taste” were expressions of Apple’s primal, angry — even sexual side, while with tracks like “Never Is a Promise,” “Sullen Girl,” and “The Child is Gone” Apple dragged us to the depths of her desolation. Tidal would go on to reach triple platinum status, be named one of the best albums of the nineties, and launch the mercurial career of an emotionally troubled artist who would continue to transform her pain (and pleasures) into song for our appreciation.

Browse all 1,000 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99 each.

Track listing

1. Sleep to Dream
2. Sullen Girl
3. Shadowboxer
4. Criminal
5. Slow Like Honey
6. The First Taste
7. Never Is a Promise
8. The Child Is Gone
9. Pale September
10. Carrion

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.