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Feb 26, 2025 By Mark Redfern Photography by Ebru Yildiz

Julien Baker and TORRES (aka MacKenzie Scott) are releasing their debut album together, Send a Prayer My Way, on April 14 via Matador. Now they have shared its third single, “Tuesday,” which is sung by TORRES and about a girl she had a crush on in her youth and the resistance to it from the girl’s mother. Listen below.

A press release says the song “centers on trying to overcome and heal from the guilt, shame and religious abuse that so many people experience discovering their identity and growing up Queer.”

Send a Prayer My Way is considered a country album. 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 song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. When the album was announced they released its second single, “Sylvia,” which made our Songs of the Week list.

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 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.

Julien Baker and TORRES Tour Dates:

3/27-3/30 – Big Ears Festival – Knoxville, TN *
4/3 – Mission Creek Festival – Iowa City, IA *
4/23 – The National – Richmond, VA
4/24 – The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
4/25 – Haw River Ballroom – Saxapahaw, NC
4/26 – High Water Music Festival – North Charleston, SC*
4/28 – Georgia Theatre – Athens, GA
4/29 – The Lyric Oxford – Oxford, MS
4/30 – Iron City – Birmingham, AL
5/1 – Tipitina’s – New Orleans, LA
5/4 – Stable Hall – San Antonio, TX
5/5 – The Heights Theater – Houston, TX
5/6 – Longhorn Ballroom – Dallas, TX
5/7 – Tower Theatre – Oklahoma City, OK
5/9 – Cain’s Ballroom – Tulsa, OK
5/10 – Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
5/11 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
5/12 – The Admiral – Omaha, NE
5/16 – Kilby Block Party – Salt Lake City, UT *
6/20 – Green River Festival – Greenfield, MA *
6/21 – Mountain Jam – Highmount, NY *
7/4-5 – Zootown Music Festival – Missoula, MT *

*Festival date

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