Silver Tongue: Vinyl LP

A person whose words are so potent that they cause the people and beings around them to vibrate is said to have a silver tongue. Its apt, then, that Mackenzie Scottwho has spent the 2010s making boundary pushing pop music under her TORRES monikerhas chosen to call her fourth album, and first release on Merge, just that. Recorded at ODeer in Brooklyn, New York, Silver Tongue is a full-scale realization of the world Scott has created over TORRES last few albums. Even when singing in more subdued tones, Scotts voice is fervent, her lyrics stirring and unyielding as she draws from both the divine and the everyday. Its also the first TORRES record produced solely by Scott. After having shared production duties on her first three albums, the latter two alongside PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis, she found the process liberating:I made exactly the record I want, and it feels very me.