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. To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs. Evermore was 2021's best-selling alternative music album and Americana album in the US and the UK, respectively. 'Willow' became Swift's seventh Billboard Hot 100 number-one song and her second in 2020 after ' Cardigan', making her the first ever act to simultaneously debut atop both Billboard 200 and Hot 100 charts two times. It was Swift's eighth consecutive Billboard 200 number-one debut, spending four weeks atop the chart, and achieved various chart feats in Australia, the UK and the US in the latter, the tracks ' Willow', ' No Body, No Crime', and ' Coney Island' impacted pop, country, and alternative radio stations, respectively. Republic Records reported over a million copies of Evermore sold in its first week globally. The album reached number one in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Greece, New Zealand, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dessner and Long Pond have achieved mainstream notability since Evermore 's release. Evermore was nominated for Album of the Year at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, a second consecutive nomination for Swift in the category after winning it with Folklore the previous year. Reviews regarded the album a sequel or a counterpart to Folklore, and various publications listed it in their 2020 year-end rankings. American bands Bon Iver, Haim, and the National appear as guest performers on the album.Įarning widespread acclaim from critics, Evermore was praised for its character studies, experimental production, and Swift's nuanced vocals. The subject matter has been described as an anthology of tales about love, marriage, infidelity, and grief, exploring the complexities of human emotion. Impressionist storytelling and mythopoeia dominate its lyrical technique.

Evermore blends alternative rock, indie folk and chamber pop styles, carried by fingerpicked guitars, somber pianos, lavish strings, and sparse percussion. Swift described Evermore as an offshoot of 'the folklorian woods'-an escapist, cottagecore-inspired direction she first ideated with Folklore during the COVID-19 pandemic she regards them as sister albums. Evermore was a spontaneous product of Swift's extended collaboration with her Folklore collaborator Aaron Dessner, mainly recorded at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley. It was a surprise album released on December 11, 2020, via Republic Records, less than five months after Folklore, her eighth studio album. Evermore (stylized in all lowercase) is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.

Broken Fate by Willow Winters