Taylor Swift just released a new album, Folklore.The National’s Aaron Dessner had a big hand in Swift’s surprise release, which was shaped in isolation and features a collaboration with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on the track “Exile.”Speaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music, Dessner explained how the album, accompanied by haunting, black and white images, was sonically shaped by the lockdown.Dessner produced the record and co-wrote 11 of its tracks, much it remotely communicated.
If Taylor "had a strong idea for a song,” he explains, “she would have a very specific template or roadmap in mind for the structure of it.”There was little wastage on this project.
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