{"product_id":"what-an-enormous-room-2","title":"What An Enormous Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat an enormous room is not only the title of the new album by \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e, it is an incantation, a phrase Mackenzie Scott has had in her head now for several years, for as long as some of the songs found here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat an enormous room is an entirely new look at \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e. Scott’s undeniable skill as a guitar player is still the engine driving her songs, but in \u003cem\u003eCollect\u003c\/em\u003e, it’s pushed through a polyphonic octave generator, creating a sound that is sexy and alien and peak Torres, a provocative statement of purpose that’s both a call to arms and a call to the dance floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWake to Flowers\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebration of the unexpected joy of things turning out much better than one could have hoped. It’s on the slinkier side of What an enormous room, exploring new territory for \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e that Scott attributes to recording with her friend \u003cstrong\u003eSarah Jaffe\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Texan singer-songwriter whose inclination to break genre boundaries has led her to collaborate with Eminem and producer Symbolyc One.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJaffe provides What an enormous room’s rhythm section, playing bass and drums, and the easiness of her collaboration with Scott made it possible for songs like “Jerk into Joy” to emerge like the incantation central to it, and the album itself—after years in Scott’s head in a way that is simultaneously more direct and more sonically ambitious than any \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e record to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she sings “look at all the dancing I can do,” it’s an invitation to awe, and there is much here to be awed by. What an enormous room contains wry, Laurie Anderson–esque art rock, Nirvana’s rage, and ABBA’s strut. Rather than fear the unknown space she occupies, Mackenzie Scott has chosen to fill it with as much of herself as possible, an artist unwilling to be stifled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re hardly alone in our admiration for \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e. As \u003cstrong\u003eJulien Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e attests: What I can say about \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e is I think the music comes from a convicted place. After a decade and six studio albums and however many one-offs and tours and articles read and conversations had, the parts of this pursuit I’ve been able to observe are all marked by a dedication to creation that treats the act ongoing with as much preciousness as the evidence of the act that is left in a record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe modes of being are different: heartbroken, broke, furious (right- and unrighteously), awestruck by love, compelled by desire, sometimes resigned to death, sometimes fascinated by and reverent of the future. Sometimes viscerally present, other times suspended in heady awareness, poised on a fulcrum of observation and participation in the phenomenon that aliveness is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe tools are the same: instruments that growl and shriek and moan, a lyrical voice shouting, swooning, chuckling, snarling as the moment commands. \u003cstrong\u003eTorres\u003c\/strong\u003e’ music-making is conducted in a melodic vocabulary unique to itself—methods, equipment, circumstances shifting around the impulse to affirm the self within the world, to make art that bears all these little artifacts of the divine and of the real and show it to people and know it is valuable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI think that’s what Mackenzie’s music does. And I think it’s just incredibly good music to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Merge Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50395059945803,"sku":"2100628","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50395060142411,"sku":"2100658","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50395059257675,"sku":"2100593","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/What_an_Enormous_Room_12b4a0ff_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726454036","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/what-an-enormous-room-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}