While it will probably take a few more days for all the reactions, close readings, and fervor over The Tortured Poets Department to really crystallize, one thing that’s immediately clear about the album is its sheer mass. Including its surprise, 16-track sister album, The Anthology, TTPD is a 31-song, two-plus hour behemoth, covering “a daunting amount of lore,” in the words of The A.V. Club’s Mary Kate Carr. But Taylor, clearly going for quantity over what could have been slightly more... Read this story
