Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) (4LP)

Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) (4LP)4LP Republic Records (2021) US, CA, EU Taylor Swift presents a vinyl 4LP pressing of Red: Taylor's Version, a re recorded edition of her 4x Platinum plus fourth studio album Red. It features 30 songs, including 9 songs from the Vault with lyrics for all 30 songs, never before seen photos, artwork and handwritten lyrics for the 10 minute version of "All Too Well." The re recording of 2012's Red follows Swift's April 2021 release of a Fearless: Taylor's

Breaking away from the blue-eyed soul model set by Amy Winehouse

and a bigger part of me knows they're due at least household name status

with NME declaring it to be "a magnificent

Combining elements of bombastic prog rock with alternating time signatures and traditional pop songwriting

a place he would never return to except through these guitar meditations

focusing instead on their own respective projects—once they decided to resume working together

with this music as a compass

and Hickey was soon writing songs of his own

Their first release

It marked a stylistic departure from the dance-pop sound of her first two albums

Rage Against the Machine opened the gates of a new boundary

But they are rendered with Animal Collective’s singular sense of exploratory wonder