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It's hard to say what genre it is, although you could probably describe it as funky pop-rock - which suggests something totally different than what it actually is. You've got to hear it, I guess. They're mostly intimate, heart-felt songs, with cabaret-like/pop-rock arrangements.
As for the new album, Extraordinary Machine, you can find the exact explanation on the pages I linked to - but I can imagine that's quite the read. I'll summarize it; initially, Fiona had recorded this album with Jon Brion, a producer. She finished it in 2002 or 2003, and then just nothing happened. Rumor spread that her label didn't want to release it because they feared bad sales and because they felt that there wasn't a potential single on the album. This was the cause for a lot of distress and anger among fans, some of whom even founded Free Fiona, trying to get the label to release the album. A couple of months ago, however, Fiona admitted that she in fact wasn't happy with Jon Brion's arrangements for the songs and thus she went on to record most of the album (leave for two songs) again with a different producer, Mike Delonzo. It's coming out on October 4 now, finally. Of course the album had been leaked already, it's been flouting around the net for about a year I think now. However, this is the Jon Brion-produced version, so the version coming out in just over a month will be different. The songs will be the same, but the arrangements and production will differ from the leaked versions.
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