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Who knew what Taylor Swift’s latest era would bring? Or even what it would sound like? The result is her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” out Friday. It's an amalgamation of an artist who has spent the last few years re-recording her life’s work and touring its material, filtered through synth-pop anthems, breakup ballads, provocative and matured subject matter, writes Associated Press music critic Maria Sherman. In moments, it feels like a bloodletting. A cathartic purge after a major heartbreak delivered through an ascendant vocal run, an elegiac verse, or synthesized productions that underscore the powers of Swift’s storytelling.

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