evermore
Surprise-dropping a career-redefining album in the midst of a paralyzing global pandemic is an admirable flex; doing it *again* barely five months later is a display of confidence and concentration so audacious that you’re within your rights to feel personally chastised. Like *folklore*, *evermore* is a team-up with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, and Justin Vernon, making the most of cozy home-studio vibes for more bare-bones arrangements and bared-soul lyrics, casually intimate and narratively rich. There is an expanded guest roster here—HAIM appears on “no body, no crime,” which seems to place Este Haim in the center of a small-town murder mystery, while Dessner’s bandmates in The National are on “coney island”—but they fit themselves into the mood rather than distract from it. (The percussive “long story short” sounds like it could have been on any National album in the past decade.) Elsewhere, “\'tis the damn season” is the elegaic home-for-the-holidays ballad this busted year didn’t realize it needed. But while so much of *folklore*’s appeal involved marveling at how this setting seemed to have unlocked something in Swift, the only real shock here is the timing of the release itself. Beyond that, it’s an extension and confirmation of its predecessor’s promises and charms, less a novelty driven by unprecedented circumstances and instead simply a thing she happens to do and do well.
Working again with Aaron Dessner, Swift challenges herself to find new dimensions within the moody atmosphere: fingerpicked ballads, colorful pop music, and her first country songs in years.
Taylor Swift's new album, evermore, is even better than folklore, thanks to greater sonic cohesion and songwriting.
The NME review of 'Evermore', Taylor Swift's second album of 2020, a follow-up to the surprise mega-smash 'Folklore'.
Despite the fact that she’s re-recording her first six albums, Swift's found time to write, record, mix and master a whole new collection of tunes – and it's one of the best she’s ever done.
Taylor Swifts lockdown adventures continued with the news yesterday that she had a second secretly written album ready to go.
The singer’s second surprise project of 2020 strolls down the mossy trail blazed by its sister record earlier this year.
On Taylor Swift's 'Evermore', she's working again with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon.
On her second surprise release of 2020, the world’s biggest pop star coolly refuses to reconfigure herself on demand
To mark her 31st birthday, Taylor Swift has dropped her second surprise album of the year. Read our review of 'evermore'.
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The album finds the singer digging further into her explorations of narrative voice and shifting points of view.
Tayor Swift's second surprise album of 2020, evermore, solidifies the questions brought up by folklore: how do we consider her work when it's not autobiographical anymore?
Evermore by Taylor Swift album review by Adam Fink. The singer/songwriter's full-length is out today via Sony/Universal and DSPs
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