The Line Of Best Fit - The Best Fit Fifty Essential Albums of 2014
That website gave 1989 a mark of 8.5 out of 10.
Quote:
One major facet of the 1989 is just how ruddy huge it is. Every track's an anthem of some kind; every track could clamber to the top of the charts with ease, brushing aside wannabes like pawns on a chessboard. In a way it shoots itself in the foot a tad, as with no peaks and valleys in the structure of the record, the zeniths aren't quite as high, nor the nadirs as low. It flattens itself out by piling epic onto epic. That said, it's easily remedied by just not listening to it in solid blocks – when “Shake It Off” shuffles on, it just erupts.
