Bombastic pop makes way for more muted songwriting, and a singular vision compared to the joyful but spread-betting Lover. With concerts off the table for the foreseeable future, no longer needing to reach four sides of a stadium may have proven liberating. Elements of her fanbase have long wanted her to revisit the Nashville songcraft of her youth through an adult lens, but this isn't that album. Folklore is largely built around the soft cascades of piano, burbling guitar and fractured, glitchy electronica that will be familiar to fans of the National's post-2010 output – at least part of the album came about from Swift writing to Dessner's musical sketches. Swift's most coherent record since her staunchly country days, it's nonetheless her most experimental, developing on Lover's stranger, more minimalist end. More than one song evokes the intimate celestial tenderness of Sufjan Stevens circa Carrie and Lowell. At the opposite end of the scale, This Is Me Trying subtly grows into its wracked orchestral grandeur, sounding more unsettling still for how Swift's voice, processed at a ghostly, vast remove, seems to encompass the whole song with her desperation.
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T aylor Swift announced the existence of her eighth album an uncharacteristic 17 hours prior to its release: "Most of the things I had planned this summer didn't end up happening, " she said – among them, a headline slot at Glastonbury – "But there is something I hadn't planned on that DID happen. " Swift only released her last album, Lover, last August. If she was surprised to have emerged from lockdown with Folklore – a 16-track album largely produced (remotely) by the National 's Aaron Dessner – her fans were even more stunned by the fact that Swift would release a record with zero fanfare. Swift pioneered the art of the all-consuming album rollout. It usually starts with her sharing coded hints that her well trained fans understand immediately. Then there are teasers for lyric videos that beget actual blockbuster videos, strewn with self-mythologising references for Swifties and journalists to unpick. It's a smart promotional strategy-by-proxy for an artist who has done little press in the past five years, and a good way of making your actions seem as if they were written in the stars.
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