Where did Taylor Swift record vocals for “august” during the Folklore sessions?

Taylor Swift recorded vocals for “august” at Kitty Committee, her home studio in Los Angeles. She built the studio during the COVID-19 pandemic after commercial recording studios closed.

Engineer Laura Sisk helped Swift establish Kitty Committee at her Los Angeles residence. This made it possible for Swift to record vocals while Jack Antonoff worked from New York and other collaborators exchanged files remotely.

The song’s broader production involved several locations. “August” was recorded at Kitty Committee and Rough Customer in Brooklyn, while mixing took place at Long Pond Studio in New York’s Hudson Valley. These locations reflect the distributed recording process used for Folklore.

A common mix-up is identifying Long Pond as the vocal-recording site. Long Pond was important to the album’s mixing and later became associated with the Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions film, but the song’s listed Los Angeles studio is Kitty Committee.