From the grungy guitars of Strange Hellos 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 Ferris Wheel). The 24-year-old Nashville songwriter relays this sadness beautifully, without veering into the confessionalism of some of her contemporaries. Sprinter combines the raw energy of Torres’s 90s forebears with modern minimalism; the result is captivating.
