Folklore, the Taylor Swift album containing “august,” is her eighth studio album.
Swift released Folklore on July 24, 2020, without the usual long promotional campaign. It followed Lover, her seventh studio album, and introduced a more introspective, atmospheric sound built around fictional characters, imagined histories, and quiet emotional scenes.
The album’s track list includes “cardigan,” “the last great american dynasty,” “exile,” “my tears ricochet,” “august,” and several other songs that became central to Swift’s pandemic-era work. “august” is the eighth track on the standard edition, creating an easy way for listeners to connect the album number and the song’s place in its sequence.
Listeners sometimes confuse Folklore’s position with Evermore’s because the two albums arrived only months apart. Evermore was Swift’s ninth studio album and was released in December 2020. Folklore came first, and its surprise release established the creative world in which “august” appears.