If It's Too Loud...

Artist : Taylor Swift Album : The Tortured Poets Department Quick Thoughts : I mean, it's fine. I think that was my feeling on first listen, and I think a lot of more casual Taylor Swift fans are coming around to that position. There are 30 tracks when you include the Anthology tracks, and about half of them are good-to-great. There's not a bad song here, but it's not a fun two hours the way some of the (Taylor's Version) ones have been. I also think, in a take that it turns out is not nearly as hot as I originally thought, that Jack Antonoff's production here is doing a disservice to a record that's more Evermore than Midnights . But this is a lot of words for an album that you've probably already heard and already have opinions about, so... Songs of Note : Too many to list, but "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart," "The Prophecy," and "The Bolter" are the highest highlights. Artist : Pearl Jam Album : Dark Matter Q...