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Who Is Aaron Dessner, Taylor Swift’s Main Collaborator on ‘Folklore’?
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile Taylor Swift always has a group of collaborators on her albums, there’s usually one chief wingman, whether it was Nathan Chapman, Max Martin and Shellback, or, as on her last pair of albums, Jack Antonoff.But for her surprise-announced eighth album “Folklore,” which drops tonight, it’s apparently Aaron Dessner of the long-running Brooklyn-based band The National, who co-wrote and produced 11 of the project’s 16 tracks.Although well-known to alternative music fans for his work with the Grammy-winning group, which he co-founded with his twin brother Bryce in their hometown of Cincinnati in 1999, Dessner is a newcomer to Swift’s inner circle.Swift is a longtime fan of the band and was even seen mingling
