Torres is back with “I got the fear,” the new single from her forthcoming album “What an enormous room” is Torres’ sixth studio album (her third with Merge). 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.
Scott had this to say about the song in a press release: “A collective dread has been mounting. Everyone I know is having a brawl with the universe, with themselves…wars, climate catastrophe, a pandemic, the worldwide regression on human rights, the political hellscape—it affects everybody, and I know we’re all feeling it in waves of varying degree all the time. I think it’s really important that we find a way to get our hopes back up. I’m here to try to help light the way if I can. Most days I really believe humanity will find a way. But there’s a nagging anxiety that maybe that won’t happen. One has to wonder if it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that a species that believes it’s doomed will doom itself.”
releases January 26th, 2024
Mackenzie Scott: vocals, guitar, bass, synth, organ, piano, drum programming
Sarah Jaffe: bass, drums, synth, organ, piano
Additional synth bass, shakers, and tambourine by TJ Allen
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.
“What an Enormous Room” is out January 26 on Merge Records
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