Fiona Apple fans in the Washington, D.C., area have truly lucked out. The “Criminal” singer, who hasn’t toured in five years, is on a seven-stop concert swing that includes the nation’s capital. Her local performance comes just after she performed a three-song set of new music at the just-ended SXSW musical festival in Austin, Texas.

“Times and perhaps tragedies have taken their toll, but Apple made clear the difference between nostalgia and currency is rawness and realness,” wrote Joshua Ostroff in a review of the performance for Spinner. “She has a timeless voice, so indelible it hardly felt like she’d been away, and so this felt more like a refrain rather than a comeback.”