Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Rachika Nayar announces fragments (expanded), shares new track
thefader.comRachika Nayar has announced an extended edition of her summer 2021 EP, fragments. The original record comprised 11 miniature guitar tracks that served as unofficial companions to the grand soundscapes of her debut LP, Our Hands Against The Dusk, released earlier that year.
Due out digitally and on vinyl April 7 via RVNG Intl., fragments (expanded) will feature seven new songs in the same spirit.
A vinyl reissue of Our Hands is scheduled to arrive the same day via NNA Tapes. Today’s announcement (March 9) comes with one of fragments (expanded)’s new cuts, “hawthorn.” Like many of the tape’s original tracks, it’s an exercise in tension, a slow build that dissipates suddenly without the visceral catharsis of release Nayar doled out so generously on her surprisingly EDM-indebted sophomore LP, Heaven Come Crashing (The FADER’s 38th favorite album of 2022).
Read Next: The 50 best albums of 2022 Listen to “hawthorn” and check out fragments (expanded)’s cover art and tracklist below.
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