Fiona Apple at the Hollywood Palladium

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Fiona Apple, 34, has always been a first-person songwriter unafraid of sharing intimacies and speaking in absolutes. But because “The Idler Wheel” is only her fourth album since 1996 and her first since 2005’s “Extraordinary Machine,” few had any idea of the ways in which she had perfected her craft in the last seven years, or how she’d learned to build songs delicate enough to be beautiful but sturdy enough to support her voice. Apple’s “The Idler Wheel” is an exquisitely rendered work, with as many thrilling moments of silence and space as with vocal drama. Hollywood Palladium, 6215 W. Sunset Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. Sun. $49.50. livenation.com.