At which home studio did Taylor Swift record vocals for “august” during the pandemic?

Taylor Swift recorded vocals for “august” at her home studio, Kitty Committee.

Kitty Committee was the name of the home recording setup Swift built at her Los Angeles residence during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many professional studios were closed or difficult to access. Engineer Laura Sisk helped record Swift’s vocals there.

The song’s broader production involved remote collaboration. Antonoff worked from New York City, while Swift recorded in Los Angeles. Other instruments and later mixing involved additional locations, including Rough Customer and Long Pond Studio in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Long Pond Studio is a frequent source of confusion because Swift, Antonoff, and Aaron Dessner later performed Folklore songs there for the documentary Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions. That studio was important to the album’s presentation and mixing process, but Kitty Committee was the home studio associated with Swift’s vocal recording for “august.”