The meeting is in session at The Tortured Poets Department.

On 19 April (Friday), Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, a mere 18 months since her last record, Midnights, and in the middle of her break from the ongoing The Eras Tour. Initially announced as a 16-track offering, Swift surprised fans with a double album, TTPD: The Anthology, containing "so much tortured poetry in the past 2 years" in the form of 15 additional songs.

The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure. This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and… pic.twitter.com/41OObGyJDW

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) April 19, 2024

"The Tortured Poets Department. An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure," Swift shares in a statement about the new record, which was co-produced by Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner. "This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it."

The first single off The Tortured Poets Department is the album's opening track, 'Fortnight' featuring Post Malone. "I’ve been such a huge fan of Post because of the writer he is, his musical experimentation and those melodies he creates that just stick in your head forever," Swift writes in a tweet. "I got to witness that magic come to life firsthand when we worked together on Fortnight."

A music video for 'Fortnight' is scheduled for release tomorrow (20/04) at 8 a.m. SGT/PHT.

Stream the double album below.