Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department album review: underwhelming and clunky

While Taylor Swift has long occupied the top tier of pop, she’s now a titan of the genre, and with the arrival of The Tortured Poets Department this morning, she is easily the most successful singer in the world.

And when it comes to the art of carving out a personal mythology through music, nobody can match Swift right now. Over the course of almost 20 years, she has steadily forged a complex language of symbols, motifs, and numerology in her songwriting, and her songs often feel like puzzles packed with personal revelations, just ready to be cracked. So the arrival of a new album is not just a chance