TORRES—a.k.a. Mackenzie Scott—has shared a new single “I got the fear,” which will be featured on the album What an enormous room, her forthcoming follow-up to 2021’s Thirstier. Produced by Scott and Sarah Jaffe, “I got the fear” features blown-out electronic drums and a delicate acoustic guitar line. The sound of a saw shoots across the landscape, giving the song a sense of yearning.
Of “I got the fear,” Scott said: “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.”
Check out the video for “I got the fear” below, and pre-order What an enormous room before it arrives January 26 via Merge here.
