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Rolling Stone
This new version of Taylor Swift’s greatest album is 30 tracks–the original 16-song ‘Red’ tricked out with B-sides and vault outtakes, all redone with more boom and detail in the production
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The Independent
This re-recording is a better, brighter version of a terrific pop album. Red is dead. Long live Red (Taylor's Version)
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Vinyl Chapters
Swift took an already brilliant album and turned the quality up to eleven. Nobody will ever do it like Miss Swift
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9.1
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A.V. Club
A sweeping, profound time machine of an album
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
With Red (Taylor’s Version), Swift displays a surprising willingness to kill, or at least revise, her darlings
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9.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Reflecting and re-evaluating: Red is an absolute triumph
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Under The Radar
It proves you can take a masterpiece and make it sound even better
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Clash
While some see Taylor Swift’s re-recording efforts as a statement of female empowerment, triumphing over those who have wronged her, really it’s much simpler than that. As ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’ shows, this is an exercise in catharsis. Leafing back through the storybook of our own formative years, we feel it all
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Taylor Swift’s reworking of Red finds even more magic in her pop blueprint
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8.5
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Pitchfork
Re-recorded in meticulous detail, along with a dozen songs cut from the 2012 original, Taylor Swift’s most pivotal album has still more to say about growing up and moving forward
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8.0
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The FT
Immaculate re-recording is part of the singer’s campaign to create new masters of her back catalogue
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8.0
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The Guardian
Swift re-records the 2012 album on which she first embraced synth-pop, tweaking songs and adding others: a mix of saccharine fluff and superb keepers
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8.0
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NME
In the latest instalment of Swift's re-recording project, the epic new version of 'All Too Well' steals the show
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PopMatters
Red (Taylor’s Version) is both an Intellectual Property strategy tool, and a prolepsis of the status that the 2012 album will uphold in the future
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7.8
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Spectrum Culture
In re-recording some of her most emotionally fraught offerings, Taylor Swift delivers even more powerful versions from a different phase of life
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7.0
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All Music
Much of the point of the re-recordings is to get these new versions as close to the original versions as possible so they can be easily licensed and to that end, Swift succeeds admirably
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