Less than five months after dropping her last album, folklore, Taylor Swift returns tonight with the surprise release of her ninth album, evermore. She revealed the news on social media this morning, calling it a “companion album” to folklore. The 15-track project includes features from Bon Iver, HAIM, and The National. It’s her third album in less than a year and a half, following August 2019’s Lover and this year’s folklore.
Swift explained her reasoning for releasing a second 2020 album in a recent Instagram post:
To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs. To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. I’ve never done this before. In the past I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released. There was something different with folklore. In making it, I felt less like I was departing and more like I was returning.
