Taylor Swift – Red ( Full Album )

Review

Red is usually a 16-song geyser of willful eclecticism that's only tangentially associated with Nashville (similar to Swift herself at this stage). The album pinballs through the U2-tinged liftoff of "State of Grace" on the dubstep-y teen pop of "I Knew You Were Trouble" to "The Last Time," an unfortunate piano duet with Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol. Swift's bedrock is driving, diaristic post-country rock – begin to see the breakup flashback "All Too Well," where she drops the fantastic image of "dancing throughout the kitchen from the refrigerator light" with your ex ex.

Part on the fun is watching Swift find her pony-footing on Great Songwriter Mountain. She often succeeds in joining the Joni/Carole King tradition of stark-relief emotional mapping: "Loving him is similar to trying to change your mind once you're already flying with the free fall," she sings within the simile-monsoon title track, where banjos and vocoders write out like third cousins. But whether she's real-talking Jake Gyllenhaal ("We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together") or fantasizing about crashing "a yacht-club party" that sounds uncannily such as Kennedy bash she attended together with her current future-ex-boyfriend Conor ("Starlight"), her self-discovery project is one on the best stories in pop. When she's really on, her songs can be like tattoos.

Tracklist

1. State Of Grace
2. Red
3. Treacherous
4. I Knew You Were Trouble
5. All Too Well
6. 22
7. I Almost Do
8. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
9. Stay Stay Stay
10. The Last Time (Feat. Gary Lightbody Of Snow Patrol)
11. Holy Ground
12. Sad Beautiful Tragic
13. The Lucky One
14. Everything Has Changed (Feat. Ed Sheeran)
15. Starlight
16. Begin Again