In her new video for the cryptically titled “Too Big for the Glory Hole,” Mackenzie Scott of TORRES captures domestic solitude in her now-iconic cowboy boots. But Scott and the world seem light-years away from the “Dressing America” video, set in that same home. The sparse keys and solemn delivery of lines such as “Must be that God can take a joke / To make the one I like best the one I fear most” push “Too Big for the Glory Hole” into near-hymn territory.

The song, partially influenced by Florine Stettheimer’s painting The Cathedrals of Wall Street, was recorded during the Silver Tongue sessions and featured on a free 7-inch included with the album’s Peak Vinyl edition. It’s available today on all streaming platforms.

Scott on how the new song and video came to be:

I recorded this song in the fall of last year, at O’Deer in Brooklyn where I’d recorded Silver Tongue a few months prior. It was just Matan, who owns the studio, and myself in the room. He engineered and I played organ and Rhodes and some sad synths. I wrote it before I moved in with my girlfriend. I was living alone in the East Village before and having a hard time of it. This song is what came of the loneliness. As far as the video, my girlfriend Jenna made the whole thing on her iPhone in quarantine. Filmed it, directed it, edited it, and she even double-processed my hair for it. She can do anything.

Critical praise for Silver Tongue:

“Silver Tongue is fixated on desire, and Scott paints the sensation as something desperate and strange. The songs sometimes touch on the rush of infatuation, but more often situate themselves in the places where love intersects with fear, jealousy, shame or ignorance.” —NPR Music

“her most intimate and eclectic” —Pitchfork

“On Silver Tongue, Mackenzie Scott is liberated from the reticence that hung over her early albums—singing about love and mysticism, becoming the cowboy she’s always wanted to embody.” —The FADER

“She’s never sounded more at ease—really, she’s never sounded more like herself.” —MTV

“Scott’s fourth album as TORRES sees her shape-shifting again with a sense of purpose and poise.” —FLOOD

“TORRES takes over production and plays most of the instruments on her fourth studio album, Silver Tongue. It was a good call, her strengths as a songwriter, singer and musician fully realized.” —Chicago Tribune

“Silver Tongue is a layered album at every level and a skillful development from one of indie rock’s most multidimensional figures.” —Consequence of Sound