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Taylor Swift
folklore
(Republic)
★★★★
RELEASED with no advance promotion but shifting 1.3 million copies on its first day of release, folklore is the surprise eighth album from Taylor Swift that delivers a stripped-down and different musical take on her usual upbeat confessional electropop.
Marking a shift from her more mainstream back catalogue, folklore primarily pares everything back to guitar, piano and vocals but it’s all in the lyrics that blur reality and fantasy over an almost indie-folk sound.
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