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Nov 01, 2023 By Mark Redfern Photography by Ebru Yildiz

TORRES (aka MacKenzie Scott) is releasing a new album, What an enormous room, on January 24, 2024 via Merge. Now she has shared its second single, “I got the fear,” via a music video. Dani Okon directed the video. Watch it below, followed by TORRES’ upcoming tour dates.

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.”

Previously TORRES shared the album’s first single, “Collect,” via a music video. “Collect” was one of our Songs of the Week.

Scott produced the album with Sarah Jaffe, recording it last fall at Durham, North Carolina’s Stadium Heights Sound. Ryan Pickett engineered the album, which was mixed overseas in Bristol by TJ Allen, and mastered by Heba Kadry.

Julien Baker wrote the album’s bio and had this to say: “What I can say about TORRES is I think the music comes from a convicted place…. And I think it’s just incredibly good music to listen to.”

TORRES’ last album, Thirstier, came out in 2021 via 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.

TORRES 2024 Tour Dates:

Wed, Jan 17 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
Thu, Jan 18 - Chicago, IL @ Venue TBA
Fri, Jan 19 - Columbus, OH @ A&R Music Bar *
Sat, Jan 20 - Nashville, TN @ The Basement *
Mon, Jan 22 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) *
Tue, Jan 23 - Durham, NC @ Motorco *
Wed, Jan 24 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis *
Thu, Jan 25 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry *
Fri, Jan 26 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere *
Sat, Jan 27 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
Fri, Feb 2 - Paris, FR @ Le Hasard Ludique
Sat, Feb 3 - Bruges, BE @ Cactus Club
Mon, Feb 5 - Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso Upstairs
Tue, Feb 6 - Cologne, DE @ Bumann & SOHN
Wed, Feb 7 - Berlin, DE @ Privatclub
Thu, Feb 8 - Munich, DE @ Milla
Sat, Feb 10 - Baden, CH @ One of a Million Festival
Mon, Feb 12 - Manchester, UK @ YES
Tue, Feb 13 - Bristol, UK @ Strange Brew
Wed, Feb 14 - London, UK @ Oslo
Wed, Mar 20 - Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge ^
Fri, Mar 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court ^
Sat, Mar 23 - Boise, ID @ Venue TBA
Tue, Mar 26 - Seattle, WA @ Neumos ^
Wed, Mar 27 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios ^
Fri, Mar 29 - San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord ^
Sat, Mar 30 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room ^
Mon, Apr 1 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah ^
Tue, Apr 2 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar ^
Thu, Apr 4 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada ^
Fri, Apr 5 - Austin, TX @ The Parish ^
Sat, Apr 6 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs) ^

* w/ Aisha Burns
^ w/ Liza Anne

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