Taylor Swift’s Los Angeles home recording studio was called Kitty Committee.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, recording studios were closed or difficult to use, so Swift built a home studio with help from engineer Laura Sisk. She recorded her vocals there while Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner worked remotely from their own locations. This distributed process became a defining part of Folklore’s creation and allowed the album to be completed while collaborators were physically separated.
Kitty Committee is often confused with other studios listed in the album credits. Rough Customer was in Brooklyn, Long Pond was in New York’s Hudson Valley, and Electric Lady was in New York City. Those facilities were used for portions of the album’s instrumentation, recording, or production, but Kitty Committee specifically refers to Swift’s Los Angeles home studio. “august” therefore belongs to a recording history shaped by quarantine technology and remote collaboration.