Editing Extraordinary Machine (section)

==Delays and leaked tracks==
In late June 2004, the song "Extraordinary"—which had since been retitled as the title track—was leaked onto the internet. Soon after, a "rough mix" of "Better Version of Me" also leaked, with the following inscription listed as a comment in the properties of the MP3 file: "It has some good bits, but I still think we never have topped the second version. Ideally, we would combine some of this with that, but obviously we can't. Sigh. Ask the others what they think—I know she was partial to both of them, particularly the second". Josh Korr of the ''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'' wrote, "With a playfulness and penchant for odd sounds and instruments that channel the spirit of [[Brian Wilson]]'s ''[[Smile (Brian Wilson album)|Smile]]'',  Apple's first songs since 1999 make [[Norah Jones]], [[Joss Stone]], [[Alicia Keys]] and other pretenders sound like ''[[American Idol]]'' rejects",<ref>{{cite news|first=Josh|last=Korr|url=http://www.tampabay.com/entertainment/story.cfm?storyid=113640 |title=Some hits—and misses |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |date=February 16, 2005 |access-date=August 28, 2005 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103170548/http://www.tampabay.com/entertainment/story.cfm?storyid=113640 |archive-date=January 3, 2006 }}</ref> while ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' called the songs "tantalizing, brazenly eccentric [[art pop]] ... With Apple, the weirder, the better".<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=802 |date=January 21, 2005 |pages=83–84 |first=David |last=Browne |author-link=David Browne (journalist) |title=The Corrections: Fiona Apple |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2005/01/17/how-can-get-rock-solid-acts-be-great-again |access-date=6 December 2011 |archive-date=6 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100306042641/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1017558,00.html |url-status=live }} Posted on January 17, 2005.</ref>

[[Image:Free Fiona protest outside Sony BMG headquarters in NYC 28-01-2005.jpg|left|thumb|Fans in support of Fiona Apple demonstrating outside the headquarters of [[Sony BMG Music Entertainment]] in [[New York City]] on January 28, 2005.]]
After months of no official news, an article about Jon Brion appeared in an October 2004 issue of ''Entertainment Weekly''. In it Brion is reported to have said that the album had been shelved since its completion in May 2003 due to the label not hearing any obvious singles. A representative for Epic Records stated that the album was to be released in February 2005, and that Apple had decided to re-record some of the songs.<ref>{{Cite magazine |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |issue=788 |date=October 15, 2004 |page=73 |first=Chris |last=Willman |title=Artists' Choice |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,711139,00.html |access-date=6 December 2011 |archive-date=25 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425132311/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,711139,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Brion later clarified the status of the album in an interview with [[MTV News]] in January 2005: he said that Epic had desired material in the vein of Apple's debut album ''[[Tidal (album)|Tidal]]'' (1996), but that when confronted by ''Machine'', "it's just not the obvious easy sell to them".<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite web|first=Rodrigo|last=Perez|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1496301/20050126/story.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050207115054/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1496301/20050126/story.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 7, 2005|title=Whatever Happened To Fiona Apple? Online Campaign Tries To Find Out|work=[[MTV News]]|date=January 26, 2005|accessdate=September 1, 2005}}</ref> When ''[[USA Today]]'' asked Apple herself about when the album would be released, she replied: "You'll probably know before I do".<ref>{{cite news|first=Gina|last=Vivinetto|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/08/Floridian/Sony_cuts_Apple_s_fan.shtml|title=Sony cuts Apple's fans to the core|newspaper=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|date=February 7, 2005|accessdate=September 2, 2005}}</ref>

Shortly thereafter, Fiona Apple fans organized a week-long mail campaign to flood Sony with support for Apple and for the release of the album. In response to the campaign, Epic president [[Steve Barnett (music executive)|Steve Barnett]] said: "It's our understanding that Fiona is still in the midst of recording her next album, and we at Epic Records join music lovers everywhere in eagerly anticipating her next release". On February 26, 2005, radio DJ [[Andrew Harms]] at [[107.7 The End]] in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]] began playing previously unheard tracks from a [[bootleg recording|bootleg]] copy of the album, and before long, poor quality copies of "Not About Love", "[[Get Him Back]]" and "Used to Love Him" were circulating on the internet.<ref>Lane. [http://www.fionaapple.org/2005/02/seattle-radio-playing-new-fiona-tracks.html "Seattle radio playing new Fiona tracks"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050901134406/http://www.fionaapple.org/2005/02/seattle-radio-playing-new-fiona-tracks.html |date=2005-09-01 }}. February 26, 2005. Retrieved September 4, 2005.</ref> Harms said of the situation: "this is pretty special ... with an established [artist] like Fiona, to have that happen is pretty crazy, so to stumble upon a full-length copy of the record was incredible"; he also noted the positive response from listeners the songs had received.<ref>{{cite web|first=Rodrigo|last=Perez|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1497617/20050301/apple_fiona.jhtml?headlines=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305094309/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1497617/20050301/apple_fiona.jhtml?headlines=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 5, 2005|title=Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Songs Leaked On The Radio|work=[[MTV News]]|date=March 1, 2005|accessdate=September 1, 2005}}</ref><!-- Brion had stated to MTV News the previous month, "Eventually [''Machine''] will come out. People who do understand her and get what she's about are going to be thrilled. Is all this going make radio play it? Probably not. Does she care? No."<ref name="mtv.com"/>-->

''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]'', in its May 2005 issue, included "Used to Love Him" on their list of "20 Songs You Should Download This Month".<ref>{{cite web|title=20 Songs You Should Download This Month|magazine=[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]|date=May 2005|page=44|url=http://freefiona.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=757|via=freefiona.com}}</ref>

By early March 2005, radio recordings of "Waltz", "Please, Please, Please", "[[O' Sailor|Oh, Sailor]]" and "Window" had leaked online; those were followed by better quality album cuts of "Oh Well" and "Red, Red, Red". Soon after, CD-quality versions of all the tracks were released through the [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]] website [http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-details.php?id=13132 TorrentBox]. They received a positive review from ''[[The New York Times]]'', who described the album as "an oddball gem", adding "Had it been released, ''Extraordinary Machine'' would have been a fine counterbalance to a pop moment full of monolithic, self-righteous sincerity."<ref>{{cite news|first=Jon|last=Pareles|authorlink=Jon Pareles|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E0DA123FF930A35757C0A9639C8B63|title=DIRECTIONS: BOOTLEG REVIEW; The Lost Apple|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 3, 2005|accessdate=September 1, 2005}}</ref> Ed Bumgardner concurred, saying the album was "certainly a work of daring and sophistication, as wildly imaginative as it is entertaining",<ref>Bumgardner, Ed.  [http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781850226 "Fiona Apple on the shelf because she's ... odd"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050914110059/http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781850226 |date=2005-09-14 }}. ''JournalNow''. March 31, 2005. Retrieved September 1, 2005.</ref> while Will Dukes said "''Extraordinary Machine'' flaunts a quirky, cold-world cohesiveness that's as inviting as it is alienating."<ref>Dukes, Will. [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews/30432/Fiona_Apple_Not_About_Love#30432 "Fiona Apple: "Not About Love""]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''. April 4, 2005. Retrieved February 5, 2007.</ref> According to the file-sharing tracking website ''BigChampagne'' in March, 46,759 people were sharing the leaked tracks on major [[Peer-to-peer|P2P]] networks.<ref>Edlund, Martin. [https://slate.com/culture/2005/04/the-fiona-apple-fiasco.html "The Fiona Apple Fiasco"] . ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''. April 19, 2005. Retrieved August 31, 2005.</ref> The [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] later contacted webmasters of sites hosting the files and asked them to be taken down,<ref>Lucero, Andres.  [http://www.geekdreams.com/archives/2005/04/05/i-just-totally-got-served/ "I just totally got served!"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070427070355/http://www.geekdreams.com/archives/2005/04/05/i-just-totally-got-served/ |date=2007-04-27 }}. ''GeekDreams''. April 5, 2005. Retrieved September 1, 2005.</ref><ref>Tanaka, Nadja. [http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/nadjadee/index201.html "Fiona Apple Extraordinary Machine Tracks"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012224843/http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/nadjadee/index201.html |date=2008-10-12 }}. ''Nadja Dee's Lavender Garden''. March 3, 2005. Retrieved September 1, 2005.</ref> while the BitTorrent files subsequently vanished from the TorrentBox website.