★★★★★
rom the grungy guitars of to the bouncy, electronic brilliance of Cowboy Guilt, Mackenzie Scott's second album under her moniker Torres is an astonishing, unpredictable record. The climax of final track The Exchange, with its unsettling refrain "Mother, Father, I'm under water", sung hauntingly quietly, summarises the melancholy of several tracks ("I've got the sadness too," she sings on )...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-05-17
★★★★★
These have been some of the albums that meant the most to me over the past decade, with or without the qualifier that they also happen to be debuts by female solo artists of prodigious talent. Each seemed to be an artist for whom their first message to the world was so much more than a collection of songs: however daringly confessional, it verged on an initiation ritual, tearing up the old language of religion, re-assembling it, and the artist herself...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2015-05-16
★★★★★
As opening statements go, it certainly leaves an impression: "Heather I'm sorry that your mother / Diseased in the brain / Cannot recall your name," is how 24-year-old Mackenzie Scott, AKA Torres, chooses to begin her second album. Such lyrical jolts are frequent, as Scott takes inspiration from her past - in particular, her Baptist upbringing and subsequent rejection of it - for an album that thrives on going to intensely personal places...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-05-15
★★★★★
For her incredible second album as Torres, Mackenzie Scott doubles down on all those PJ Harvey comparisons big time. First, she traveled to the singer's English hometown of Bridport, Dorset to partially record this new nine-song cycle, as well as the Bristol studio of Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley, who plays on the majority of the record as well...
- www.relix.com
2015-05-13
★★★★★
When singer/songwriter and Macon, GA native Mackenzie Scott released her debut self-titled album under the moniker TORRES a day before her 23rd birthday in early 2013, reactions mostly focused on the fact that Scott's country-fried approach to emotionally devastating slow rock songs showed great promise but hadn't quite rounded into shape. The album seemed muted, restrained and hesitant...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2015-05-09
★★★★★
Torres, or Mackenzie Scott to her schoolyard friends, is raw and biblically conflicted like Tori Amos, has the left of center weirdness of St. Vincent, and a vocal approach somewhere between Nico and Marissa Paternoster. Her words feel like they've been not so much pulled from diaries, but pulled from the place in between her brain and the pen...
- www.ink19.com
2015-05-08
★★★★★
Questioning what you once held fundamentally true is exhausting, but in every possible way, Brooklyn-via-Nashville singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott's intense, spiritual sophomore album as Torres suggests that this is work worth doing. Her 2013 self-titled debut felt inherently raw in its stripped-down folk-rock, a sound akin to that of her future collaborator Sharon Van Etten...
- pitchfork.com
2015-05-07
★★★★★
In 2013, whilst still at university, singer/songwriter Mackenzie Scott self-released a remarkably accomplished debut album under the musical moniker of Torres. It heralded the arrival of a compelling and complex new talent, who at just twenty-two years old possessed the sort of poetic insight and emotional intelligence that belied her years. Of course, in the wake of universal critical approbation there often comes a certain weight of expectation...
- thequietus.com
2015-05-12
★★★★★
McKenzie Scott is running from her past, although she's not hiding from it, either. The 24 year old Nashville singer-songwriter has been forced to reach a certain autonomy in her musical career just as she's experiencing changes of her own, changes that will remain unknowable for the foreseeable future...
- www.noripcord.com
2015-05-05
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