Fiona Apple covered the Waterboys’ “The Whole Of The Moon” for the end credits of the series finale of The Affair. Apple also made the theme song for the Showtime show, which debuted back in 2014 and wrapped up its run last night. As The New York Times points out, the episode opened with the 1985 Waterboys original and then closed with Apple’s cover.

Apple has been unusually active this year. So far in 2019, she’s guested on a King Princess song, covered the Beach Boys for a documentary, got into a charming little tiff with Lil Nas X, and, just a couple weeks ago, contributed a song to Bob’s Burgers’ Halloween episode.

Listen to her cover of “The Whole Of The Moon” below.

UPDATE: Apple’s friend Zelda Hallman has uploaded a video of Apple recording the vocals, and revealed the other musicians on the track including Phoebe Bridgers…

Fiona Apple covered The Waterboys’ The Whole of the Moon for the series finale of Showtime’s The Affair. She asked Tony Berg to produce the record. Tony called in Matt Chamberlain, Patrick Warren, Ethan Gruska, Wendy Melvoin, and Phoebe Bridgers.

Fiona has worked often with Matt and Patrick and knew Ethan as the brother of her former bandmate, drummer, Barbara. This was the first time she had met Wendy and Phoebe and fell in love with both of them.

In a few hours they produced this beautiful rendition of a classic written by Mike Scott. After Mr. Scott (@ MikePuck) heard the performance he tweeted – “Prepare ye to receive goosebumps.”

Fiona practiced the first take in a small vocal closet but when it came time for the main event, Tony moved Fiona into the big room where she had a great expanse to sing into. I tagged along with my new camera which I could barely work because I had forgotten my glasses – couldn’t see the buttons, couldn’t focus. Despite the crappy camera work of a blind photographer, the magic that is Fiona shines through. I hope you enjoy this captivating version of a sublime song.

Drums – Matt Chamberlain
Chamberlin – Patrick Warren
Bass – Wendy Melvoin
Piano – Ethan Gruska
Background Vocals – Phoebe Bridgers