SWIFT, TAYLOR – RED Dischord Records Daunting and daring to say

Daunting and daring to say the very least

The album’s concept might sound silly

From 2016 to 2021

and their sound openly recalls all the frayed and wiry post-rock of the 80s and 90s

before the return of Gordo and the development of RDP’s later hardcore–metal crossover era

SWIFT, TAYLOR – RED Dischord Records Daunting and daring to say"In early 2012, Taylor Swift turned in 20 songs to her label for what would become her fourth album, Red. They were all further outgrowths of the pop country sound she had mastered in her early years, as a teenager finding her voice in the Nashville scene, trying on songs like Tim McGraw to reflect the starlight over Georgia and the allure and disappointment of romantic love through a lens that was unmistakably hers. As she amassed a body of work for