torres - 'torres'

seems weird for them to ding her for not being commercially successful when they still have someone like Pixx on the label (I assume) who has only barely released like 2 eps

oh I guess she finally put out an album, but still...did anyone buy it?maybe she'll be dropped next.

getting dropped by a label for not being commercially successful is...pretty typical?

Yeah, surely it’s not that huge a story? It’s a shame for Torres personally and I can completely understand her disappointment with the situation but it’s not a new or shocking outcome. I would expect that she’ll find another label.

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Got this email from Merge; never really listened to her but the Tim McGraw reference piqued my interest. It's all right.

https://open.spotify.com/album/4S4Uyd4EjdrlmDNkzou92g

Mackenzie Scott, who performs as TORRES, just announced the July 30 release of Thirstier, the studio follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Silver Tongue.

+ Listen & watch: Music video for “Don’t Go Puttin Wishes in My Head”

The single, which Scott playfully describes as “my relentless arena country star moment—my shameless Tim McGraw cheeseball hit,” is one of ten songs that comprise Thirstier, a searing and life-affirming eruption of an album that wonders what could happen if we found a way to make our fantasies inexhaustible.

I dunno about Tim McGraw, but I just came here to remark on how much it sounds like a Killers song.

New album is fantastic IMO.

listening to it right now - it's great!

I have entirely ignored Torres to this point, but this album hits all kinds of sweet spots for me. I gather it's noisier and punchier than her earlier stuff? If so I joined at the right time, I like the noisiness and punchiness.

she's gotten increasingly noisier but the first album is some incredible songwriting

xp Her second album, Sprinter, is similarly noisy & great, less synths and perhaps more overtly influenced by 90s alternative rock.

Never listened to Torres before but the new album sounds great. A lot of it reminds me of the Breeders and Mitski.