Fiona Apple releases new song, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”

Fiona Apple has released a new single. Her new song, “Pretrial (Let Her Go Home)”, arrives five years after the release of her last album Fetch the Bolt Cutters, and was released in support of the Free Black Mamas DMV initiative, which supports mothers who get trapped in the legal system because they can’t afford cash bail. Check out the song below and find out more at LetHerGoHome.org.

Apple released a statement about the song and the cause: “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. It was particularly hard to hear mothers and caretakers get taken away from the people who depend on them. For the past five years, I have been volunteering with the Free Black Mamas DMV bailout, and I have been lucky to be able to witness the stories of women who fought for and won their freedom with the tireless and loving support of the leadership. I hope that this song, and the images shared with me, can help to show what is at stake when someone is kept in pretrial detention. I give this song in friendship and respect to all who have experienced the pain of pretrial detention and to the women of the group’s leadership who have taught me so much and whom I truly love.”