Taylor Swift
Every album we have reviewed, graded S to F.
- Albums graded
- 12
- Highest grade
- Average grade
- Span
- 2006 to 2025
Every album
12 albums, 2006 to 2025, each placed by its grade, then sorted onto the board.
The records
Newest first, each with the line its review opens on.
2025The Life of a ShowgirlShort, bright and back with the Swedes, and pleased with itself in a way that keeps the songs at arm's length.
2024The Tortured Poets DepartmentTwo hours of a great songwriter refusing to be edited, and the refusal is the whole story.
2022MidnightsA tidy, muted synth pop album about lying awake, and it never quite reaches for anything.
2020evermoreThe sister album, stranger and rougher in the writing, and considerably harder to love as a whole.
2020folkloreShe stopped writing about herself, started writing characters, and made her best album.
2019LoverEighteen tracks of pastel contentment, and about seven of them are actually finished.
2017reputationThe angry one, and its production is far more interesting than its grievances.
20141989The clean break: no guitars, no apologies, and a run of singles that nobody has bettered since.
2012RedA messy, restless, brilliant transition album with the best song she has ever written on it.
2010Speak NowWritten entirely alone at twenty, and the ambition of that shows in both directions.
2008FearlessThe teenage blockbuster: a handful of songs that defined a generation of proms and a lot of filler between them.
2006Taylor SwiftA sixteen year old writing better than the Nashville machine around her, on a record that sounds exactly like 2006 Nashville.