Taylor Swift - Folklore

maybe she's upset that two Architecture in Helsinki albums got higher scores

...or too busy tracking down Architecture In Helsinki for a collaboration on her next quarantine album.

where's the cardigan demo?

it is a single on spotify, and I assume elsewhere. Called "cabin in candlelight version."

We made an all acoustic, stripped down version of #Cardigan yesterday. Have a listen! https://t.co/sUZyj1WLRp

— Aaron Dessner (@aaron_dessner) July 30, 2020

i think it's just an alternate mix, not the demo. the piano & vocal take sounds the same as the album version, so the only new addition to the mix is the acoustic guitar.

i like the album version's percussion, it adds to the ways it reminds me of tori

ah ok. I googled it while listening and nme.com calls it a demo. I've been lied to.

i've heard "cardigan" on the radio several times now and to my surprise it never sounded out of place

A "remix/mashup" of Mirrorball and This Is Me Trying, tagged as #Shoegaze. Probably closer to Noise Pop due to the blown-out nature of the mix. Pretty cool.

https://soundcloud.com/stpaulattheendoftheworld/mirror-trying-remix-mashup-of-taylor-swift-mirrorball-this-is-me-trying

This album is so precisely my shit. Just killer track after killer track. Giving me a lot of mid-90s lo-fi indie vibes, Scrawl in particular. I don't think she's ever written better melodies or let herself just consistently stretch out like this. And when she has in the past the lyrics have always felt a bit cloying, like overcompensating or showy, and now its just so goddamn seamless. This is now up in competition with any of the classic singer-songwriter albums from the 70s or whatever. I absolutely didn't expect we could ever have chart-topping albums like this ever again.

even the "bad" ones have grown on me

also how tf did the whole conversation about "cardigan" revolve around ldr and not like early fiona apple? (and there's a lot of half-quotes of "wildest dreams" too)

the other comparison that came up apart from ldr wrt "cardigan" was tori amos which i agree with far more

um, Scrawl vibes?! guess I will listen to this after all

hmmm but scrawl were good

I played this a lot those first few days, but haven’t been compelled to revisit it. I guess each album of hers (since Red) has had less staying power for me than the one preceding it.

I very much enjoyed relistening to this tonight although yeah you could cut 3-4 songs easy

I resequenced the album and it made me love it a lot more

there's a natural flow to the songs on this album that isn't the official track listing, and it serves to highlight the songs that make up the album much more

without having to cut any songs if you don't want to -- it's definitely a slow burn of an album

josh post the sequence

here's my sequence! it sounds like a proper adventure through the wilderness with peaks and valleys along the way -- starts out slow and sunny, slowly shifts into sepia and somber, moves through those tones, then eventually finds some clearing at the end.

it may be helpful to view this sequencing in the LP format -- Side A: 1-4; Side B: 5-8; Side C: 9-12; Side D: 13-16

1. epiphany
2. mirrorball
3. august
4. invisible string
5. betty
6. the last great american dynasty
7. illicit affairs
8. cardigan
9. hoax
10. seven
11. mad woman
12. exile (ft. Bon Iver)
13. this is me trying
14. my tears ricochet
15. peace
16. the 1

i guess i shouldn't be surprised that ppl here are driven to resequence the best-sequenced taylor swift record since fearless but... whet?????? "the 1" last???? no way

i mean not to knock the adventure you've created josh, it looks like a fun listen!

yeah there's nothing wrong with the sequence at all and i think her sequencing has usually been kinda dubious at best.

ha no big! we're all just having fun here

guess it's just indicative of how I listen to music

"the 1" last????

You should hear my "Wish" resequence that starts with "End" and ends with "Open." Totally changes your perspective, makes you think! No wonder Robert Smith is struggling with the remaster.

(I can totally imagine resequencing "Folklore." Tbh, I doubt there are many 70 minute, 17-song albums that couldn't be successfully shuffled.)

I should try a resequence, like josh's, because my attention runs out of steam by the last three songs, which I'll probably love should I be more receptive to listening to them carefully

Whoever mentioned Scrawl in this thread, thanks! I don’t hear this album at all but I discovered a band I’d never heard of and immediately like

awesome, Scrawl are great

travel on rider is dope

bonus track "the lakes" is now available to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHcAc3r2kw

not bad but the album is definitely better without it

I woke up with "Mirrorball" and "The 1" in my head, a lovely way to wake up.

"the lakes" is fine but a song that references twitter would strike a false note on the album

No song that alludes to Wordsworth and Coleridge can't be a bad song.

uh lol can be a bad song

i want auroras and sad prose
i want to watch wisteria grow
right over my bare feet
because i haven't moved in years

actually when i heard "the lakes" last month i immediately thought of it as a decoder for the rest of folklore, it sets the intentions

The album's now split into EP-size chunks ("the escapism chapter," "the sleepless nights chapter")?

This is definitely the 2020 album on top of 'recently' in spotify that I just gravitate towards and end up listening to even when I've entered with different intentions

It goes well with anything — brunch, cocktails, late nights. The perfect 2020 lifestyle accessory album, which I mean in a good way.

No song that alludes to Wordsworth and Coleridge can't be a bad song.

uh lol can be a bad song

Agree that Genesis's "The Colony of Slippermen", Rush's "Xanadu", and Iron Maiden's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are classic.

otm

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I Designed A Taylor Swift Theme Park w/60+ Attractions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pno5g88MONo

(That was a C&P error, I didn't design this, lol)

taking stannery to a whole new level..... I admire his Virgo mastermind energy

this is the best movie of 2020 — his love of her music is so sweet and sincere