Thirstier
Mackenzie Scott’s latest is anthemic and euphoric, loaded with hooks and joyous reflections on love and self-discovery.
The indie star's fifth album finds her enmeshed as deeply as ever in matters of the heart, though this time she's examining day-to-day joy
TORRES fails to quench the art rock thirst on her experimental fifth album
The Brooklyn-based rock experimentalist tries a new sound on for size on her fifth LP: unfettered enthusiasm.
Much of the praise for Torres' early albums centered on her music's complexity, which was as much of a curse as it was a blessing.
MacKenzie Scott, the mercurial creative behind TORRES, was seemingly on the cusp of a breakthrough in 2017 with her third full-length album Three Futures, and a promising record deal with 4AD. Yet, despite the acclaim the record garnered, Scott was unceremoniously dropped as the record underperformed commercially.
What happens when your career in angst-laden indie rock gets interrupted by domestic bliss? On Mackenzie Scott’s fifth album as TORRES,
Thirstier is a megastar move from Torres – it deserves to catapult Mackenzie Scott to the massive audiences her songs are big enough for
Torres’s ‘Thirstier’ delightfully straddles the line between art pop and art rock. Read our review.
Thirstier by TORRES Album Review by Adam Williams. The singer/songwriter's full-length comes out on July 30, via Merge Records