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Torres (album)

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Released
  
22 January 2013

Length
  
51:38

Genre
  
Rock, folk

Label
  
Recorded
  
Summer 2012, Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Producer
  
Mackenzie Scott, Ryan McFadden

Torres (stylised as TORRES) is the self-titled debut studio album by Torres (née Mackenzie Scott), released independently in January 2013. The album was recorded over the course of five days by Nasvhille audio engineer Ryan McFadden in a recording studio in Franklin, Tennessee.

Contents

Critical reception

TORRES has received generally favorable reviews from several mainstream critic websites including BPM, Pitchfork Media, and Drowned in Sound. Metacritic, which assigns an average score based on various professional ratings, gave the album an 81/100, based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim." Critics praised Scott's powerful, raw voice and the live, intimate recording style as notable attractions of the record. Jayson Greene of Pitchfork Media wrote, " Mackenzie Scott's voice conveys raw, urgent desperation, the sort we flinch from instinctually and are attuned, on a primal level, to heed." Drew Malmuth of Pretty Much Amazing wrote, "TORRES is an album that is pulsating with life."

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Mackenzie Scott

Personnel

Musicians

  • Mackenzie Scott - singing/voices, guitar, percussion
  • Chris DePorter - drums, percussion
  • Brady Surface - bass, synth
  • Mark Sloan - guitar, rhodes
  • Bobby Chase - violin
  • Larissa Maestro - cello
  • Natalie Prass - vocal harmonies on "November Baby"
  • Ryan McFadden - drum programming on "Chains" and "Don't Run Away, Emilie"
  • Production

  • Mackenzie Scott - Co-Producer
  • Ryan McFadden - Co-Producer, Engineer, Mixing
  • Andrew Darby - Mastering
  • Art Direction

  • Jess Cohen - Design, Inside Photo, Layout
  • Bobby Herb - Cover Photo
  • References

    Torres (album) Wikipedia


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