TORRES—the project of Brooklyn-based musician Mackenzie Scott—has returned with a new single, “Wake to flowers,” from her forthcoming sixth album. What an enormous room is set to arrive on January 26 via Merge. On the new cut, Scott sings above subtle percussion and a walking bass line, employing a near-falsetto to croon of dread and despair: “Months of Sundays / Coffee stains / I see them comin’ miles away / Loneliness / Deaths of pets and parents.”
Despite these lyrics, the song eventually takes on a different tone. Explained Scott: “Iʼm familiar with the disappointment that frequently follows hope. People are frighteningly resilient. We are regularly optimistic and regularly shattered by the want of something, maybe something that takes all our might and energy and then still doesnʼt happen. But have you ever been anxious that things werenʼt going to turn out the way you hoped, or maybe you werenʼt very optimistic, and then you got everything you wanted? I feel like this happens a lot but I don't hear it acknowledged very much. Everything I have now is something I once fought and longed for—this song is my way of keeping myself aware of that all the time.”
Check out the video for “Wake to flowers” below, and pre-order What an enormous room here.
