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1 day agoJerskin Fendrix: Once Upon a Time... in Shropshire
Jerskin Fendrix's second album juxtaposes pastoral nostalgia with maximalist theatrical music to process grief after a close childhood friend's suicide.
On the 12-track album, which dropped Friday to mixed critical reception, Swift is uncharacteristically risqué and, for possibly the first time, indulges her inner theater kid without reservation. In that sense, much of the pop record is daringly new. Still, on each track are sonic echoes from the 14-time Grammy winner's decades-spanning discography - from the verve of "Reputation" to the romantic whimsy of "Lover."