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TORRES (Album)

TORRES
Torres cover art.jpg
Studio album by Torres
Released 22 January 2013
Recorded Summer 2012, Franklin, Tennessee, United States
Genre Rock, folk
Length 51:38
Label Independent
Producer Mackenzie Scott, Ryan McFadden
Torres chronology
Torres
(2013)
Sprinter
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 81/100
Review scores
Source Rating
Pretty Much Amazing A-
No Ripcord 9/10
BPM 8.6/10
Pitchfork Media 8.1/10
Boston Phoenix 3/4 stars
Drowned in Sound 7/10
Nashville Scene 4/5
NME 9/10

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.

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."

All music and lyrics by Mackenzie Scott

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