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After exploring her indie-folk impulses on Folklore earlier this year, Taylor Swift has walked deeper into the woods with Evermore, an album that extends her current era while offering some of the biggest risks of Swift’s career as a songwriter. Multiple tracks on Evermore tinker with pop structure and narrative design, as Swift — working once again alongside collaborators like Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff and Bon Iver, and now pulling Haim into her sonic world — crafts hooks for new characters while delving deeper into her own ideas of adult love and pain. Evermore is fully formed, less of a follow-up to Folklore than an expansion of its universe; there was fertile ground left to explore, and Swift summarily locates it.

And while there are no skippable tracks on the new album, there are a few standouts out of the 17 on the deluxe edition. Here is a humble, preliminary opinion on the best songs on Taylor Swift’s Evermore.

After borrowing Aaron Dessner from The National for Folklore, Swift corrals the full band for “Coney Island,” a duet with singer Matt Berninger in which the two musical approaches meet in the middle. Whereas “Exile,” the Folklore duet with Bon Iver, was founded upon escalated drama, “Coney Island” rests on the gentle recollections of a pair that has shared a world, with Berninger’s soothing rumble returning every volley from Swift.

As she did on Folklore songs like “The Last Great American Dynasty” and “Betty,” Swift creates emotional stakes on “Dorothea” by zooming in on passed-down narratives and singing from new perspectives. The backstories of the characters in “Dorothea” are less crucial than the drama that Swift constructs: a separation, a skipped prom and other well-worn memories, swinging alongside a guitar and tambourine.

“Gold Rush” begins with a red herring, as Swift’s layered vocals shimmer in a manner that immediately recalls the Folklore standout “Mirrorball”; after a few seconds, however, the song finds a pulsating rhythm as Swift rapidly spills her jealous feelings and longstanding insecurities (“What must it be like to grow up that beautiful?” she wonders). “Gold Rush” keeps the listener guessing as it swivels in different directions, with drums, horns and violins flushing out Swift’s confessions.