Some two months after announcing it at the 2024 Grammy Awards, Taylor Swift released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, overnight. Two hours later, she surprise-released a 15-track expansion of the album, dubbed The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years and wanted to share it all with you,” she wrote on social media. Listen to both parts in full below.
The singer-songwriter’s follow-up to Midnights opens with the Post Malone collaboration “Fortnight” and features another star act, Florence and the Machine, on mid-album cut “Florida!!!” Swift also worked on the album with her two go-to producers: Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner.
Swift also worked on The Tortured Poets Department with recording engineers Laura Sisk and Jonathan Low, Grammy-winning mixer Serban Ghenea, Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, string player and arranger Rob Moose, violinist Galya Bisengalieva, pianist Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), longtime Post Malone collaborator Louis Bell, the National’s Bryce Dessner, and the non-Antonoff members of Bleachers (Zem Audu, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Michael Riddleberger, and Evan Smith).
Swift plans to release the music video for “Fortnight” at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, April 19. “I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever,” Swift wrote online. “I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight.”