Aaron Dessner has praised Taylor Swift following the discharge of her new album ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ admitting he’s “frequently astonished by her abilities as a songwriter and performer”.

The Nationwide guitarist co-produced and co-wrote a number of songs on Taylor’s eleventh studio LP, which got here out on Friday (19.04.24) and he took to his Instagram account to reward his “expensive pal” on her achievement.

He posted: “I am so excited and honored to share that I’ve contributed to my expensive pal and collaborator @taylorswift’s good eleventh album – a 31 track double album / anthology known as The Tortured Poets Division. We began engaged on these songs over two years in the past and it looks like they’ve saved us firm and developed in lovely and sudden methods by way of a lot life lived throughout this course of … I imagine these songs are among the most lyrically acute, intricate, weak and cathartic Taylor has ever written and I’m frequently astonished by her abilities as a songwriter and performer.”

Aaron, 47, first labored with Taylor, 34, on her eighth studio album ‘Folklore’, launched in July 2020, and in his publish he admitted that he shall be eternally be “grateful to Taylor” for trusting him together with her music.

He added: “It is arduous to imagine Taylor and I’ve now recorded over 60 songs collectively (17 throughout this anthology!!) within the 4 years since we started working collectively on Folklore in 2020. I’m eternally grateful to Taylor for sharing her insane abilities with and trusting me together with her music.

“It is not misplaced on me how fortunate I’m that that is my job and I really feel so grateful to be part of creating this huge, magically detailed and symbolic world of songs Taylor has crafted that all of us get to inhabit and luxuriate in. Preserve looking and you will find some new element, layer or sliver of that means with every pay attention.”

Dessner additionally labored with Taylor on her ninth studio LP ‘Evermore’, launched in December 2020, however didn’t contribute to tenth studio album ‘Midnights’ which got here out in October 2022.

The musician beforehand described the ‘Anti-Hero’ hitmaker as “one of many biggest songwriters of all time”.

In a 2023 interview with PEOPLE, he mentioned: “I believe Taylor is among the biggest songwriters of all time.

“The poetic and literary bent of her lyricism, the place songs usually have elaborately woven narratives and hidden meanings that hook up with her earlier or future work, what her followers name ‘Easter eggs,’ helps to create a whole inventive world that all of us get to inhabit and obsess over as her followers.

Taylor launched ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ at midnight after which two hours later – a time she had dropped hints about a number of instances within the week previous to launch – she shocked followers by revealing the challenge is definitely a double album.

She wrote on Instagram: “It’s a 2am shock: The Tortured Poets Division is a secret DOUBLE album. I’d written a lot tortured poetry up to now 2 years and needed to share all of it with you, so right here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. 15 further songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore… it’s all yours.”