Taylor Swift Drops ‘Folklore’ Sister Album, ‘Evermore,’ Her Second Record This Year

If you’ve only just emotionally recovered from Taylor Swift’s melancholy masterpiece Folklore, there’s good news and bad news. Swift released a new album, Evermore, at midnight Thursday, her second record this year, and it features more of the same subdued and reflective style that made fans weep with Folklore. Swift announced the record in a surprise tweet earlier in the day. A music video for the album’s first single, “Willow,” was also released at midnight. “To put it plainly, we just couldn’t stop writing songs...In the past, I’ve always treated albums as one-off eras and moved on to planning the next one as soon as an album was released. There was something different with folklore,” she wrote on Twitter. “I also know this holiday season will be a lonely one for most of us and if there are any of you out there that turn to music to cope with missing loved ones the way I do, this is for you.”