{"title":"TORRES","description":"\u003cp\u003eMackenzie Scott currently records and performs as \u003cstrong\u003eTORRES\u003c\/strong\u003e, a tribute to her grandfather's surname. She was raised in Macon, GA, and now resides in NYC’s East Village. She was also voted class clown her senior year of high school, though you’d never know it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat an enormous room \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cstrong\u003eTORRES\u003c\/strong\u003e’ sixth studio album (her third with Merge). It was recorded in September and October 2022 at Stadium Heights Sound in Durham, North Carolina. It was engineered by Ryan Pickett, produced by Mackenzie Scott and Sarah Jaffe, mixed by TJ Allen in Bristol, UK, and mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC. The album contains 10 songs. Mackenzie wrote all of them. Sarah played bass guitar, synths, drums, organ, and piano. Mackenzie sang vocals, played guitar, bass, synths, organ, piano, and programmed drums. Additional synth bass, tambourine, and shakers were played by TJ Allen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"torres-silver-tongue","title":"TORRES - Silver Tongue","description":"\u003cp\u003eA person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a “silver tongue.” It’s apt, then, that Mackenzie Scott—who has spent the 2010s making boundary-pushing pop music under her \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/torres\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTORRES\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/a\u003emoniker—has chosen to call her first release on Merge just that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded at O’Deer in Brooklyn, New York, \u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilver Tongue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is a full-scale realization of the world Scott has created over TORRES’ last few albums. Even when singing in more subdued tones, Scott’s voice is fervent, her lyrics stirring and unyielding as she draws from both the divine and the everyday.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eThe album fastidiously chronicles the impulses that make up desire—from the dreamy first blushes of infatuation through the slightly terrifying wonder that accompanies connection with another. 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I hope that it brings joy and a little solace where people need it most. Lots of love and thanks to my bandmates for taking the ride with me and to every fan who’s made live music possible.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739237544247,"sku":"MRG752digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/20e07b34c160f243cee71a7f7e64d5f4e7668a2b_0acb28ec679bfd1dcd027e80acb5cfe9c0741a4d_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785381899"},{"product_id":"torres-thirstier","title":"TORRES - Thirstier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/torres\"\u003eTORRES\u003c\/a\u003e’ fifth album \u003ci\u003eThirstier\u003c\/i\u003e pumps the miraculous into the mundane. It is in open revolt against the gray drag of time, a searing and life-affirming eruption of an album that wonders what could happen if we found a way to make our fantasies inexhaustible. What if we got whatever we wanted and still wanted it, endlessly, with no threat of boredom and no danger of depletion? What could we become if we let ourselves grow incandescent with eternally renewing desire?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded in the fall of 2020 at Middle Farm Studios in Devon, UK, \u003ci\u003eThirstier\u003c\/i\u003e marks a turn towards a bigger, more bombastic sound for TORRES. The anxious hush that fell over much of Scott’s previous music gets turned inside-out in songs tailored for post-plague celebration. Scott co-produced the album with Rob Ellis and Peter Miles, drawing on her experience self-producing the acclaimed 2020 LP \u003ca href=\"\/products\/torres-silver-tongue\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilver Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e to push her music onto an even broader scale. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP (Black)","offer_id":52739243704631,"sku":"MRG757LP","price":24.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739243671863,"sku":"MRG757CD","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739243770167,"sku":"MRG757digital","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/b7096b3c9f25427ce99e916b8e475f68d82c35d6_8d1a8fa0e5d024268a0ea02875b9dc93d4692990_medium_jpg_f476f946-d303-46ef-9de6-c1ce25c7fcb5.jpg?v=1789600512"},{"product_id":"torres-making-memories-of-us-b-w-all-apologies","title":"TORRES - \"Making Memories of Us\" b\/w \"All Apologies\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eA companion to TORRES' \u003ca href=\"\/products\/torres-thirstier\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThirstier \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003efeaturing covers of the Rodney Crowell–penned Keith Urban hit “Making Memories of Us” and Nirvana’s “All Apologies.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl (Orange)","offer_id":52739246915895,"sku":"MRG787lp-C1","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739246948663,"sku":"MRG787digital","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/099ad65ce5b0da55b43677dc9e649b31e5d6a804_9f437ab4176ebee2acb228d2c1402eba0bb16fef_medium_jpg_9a1a4d59-7968-4473-b3b1-573e975adc7e.jpg?v=1789600525"},{"product_id":"torres-what-an-enormous-room","title":"TORRES - What an enormous room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat an enormous room \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cstrong\u003eTORRES\u003c\/strong\u003e’ sixth studio album (her third with Merge). 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