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Jan 29, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Ybru Yildiz

Julien Baker and TORRES (aka MacKenzie Scott) have announced their debut album together, Send a Prayer My Way, and shared a new single from it, “Sylvia.” Send a Prayer My Way is considered a country album and is due out April 14 via Matador. Below, find the album details and the new single.

The duo released their debut single together, “Sugar in the Tank,” in December only days after the two beloved queer indie rock singer/songwriters performed the country song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

The album has been in the works since the two first performed together in 2016 and one of them suggested that they one day make a country album.

TORRES had this to say about “Sylvia” in a press release: “The morning I went to pick up my dog Sylvia from an upstate shelter, I was at home making my coffee and I turned on WFMU and Dolly Parton’s ‘Cracker Jack’ was on. I burst into tears—it felt like the universe was telling me she was going to be mine (Sylvia was only meant to be a foster). I remember thinking that I’d love to write a song like that, a song that people could feel in their chest within five seconds of turning on the radio, because anyone who has ever had the honor of sharing a home with a beloved pet knows that a pet is family—they’re the best friends you could ever have.”

TORRES released a new album, What an enormous room, in January 2024 via Merge. In August 2024 she teamed up with Fruit Bats for the collaborative EP, A Decoration, also on Merge.

Read our 2020 interview with TORRES on Silver Tongue.

Read our 2017 interview with TORRES on Three Futures.

Read our 2015 interview with TORRES on Sprinter.

Baker’s last solo album was 2021’s Little Oblivions, which was followed by the accompanying B-Sides EP, both released via Matador. Little Oblivions was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2021. Read our Protest Issue interview with Baker, where she discusses the album, here. Also listen to our Under the Radar podcast interview with Baker here.

In 2023, boygenius—Baker’s supergroup with Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers—released their debut full-length album, the record, on Interscope. It was followed by the EP, The Rest.

Read our 2019 cover story interview with boygenius.

Read our 2017 cover story interview with Julien Baker.

Also read our 2017 cover story bonus Q&A with Baker.

Read our 2016 interview with Baker and our 2015 Artist Survey interview with her.

Send a Prayer My Way Tracklist:

1. Dirt
2. The Only Marble I’ve Got Left
3. Sugar in the Tank
4. Bottom of a Bottle
5. Downhill Both Ways
6. No Desert Flower
7. Tape Runs Out
8. Off the Wagon
9. Tuesday
10. Showdown
11. Sylvia
12. Goodbye Baby

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