{"id":3360,"date":"2015-05-12T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2015-05-19T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T17:00:25","slug":"torres-sprinter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/torres-sprinter\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres <br>Sprinter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/torres-sprinter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3361\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/torres-sprinter.jpg\" alt=\"Torres, Sprinter\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/torres-sprinter.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/torres-sprinter-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Much in the way Dr. Martens and flannel shirts have slowly come back into vogue, the guitar-driven sonics of the \u201890s have been on a similar return path. And it\u2019s not just result of the reuniting Gen X bands; younger musicians are manifesting the \u201890s like a musical sleeper cell. One such artist is Mackenzie Scott, better known as Torres. The Brooklyn-based singer has tapped into some of the best parts of the \u201890s alt-rock sound on her sophomore record <i>Sprinter<\/i> (Partisan Records).<\/p>\n<p>Rather than just making a nod to the past, Torres went all in, tapping PJ Harvey\u2019s Rob Ellis as a co-producer and percussionist. Ellis in turn drafted Ian Olliver, who played with him on PJ Harvey\u2019s <i>Dry<\/i>. Torres didn\u2019t stop there, though, as she also collaborated with Portishead\u2019s Adrian Utley. Nevertheless, <i>Sprinter<\/i> isn\u2019t so much an attempt at mining the past, but rather just Torres aligning herself with the people who make sense. Big swathes of <i>Sprinter<\/i> sound like early PJ Harvey; while not quite as violently explosive, <i>Sprinter\u2019s<\/i> \u201cStrange Hellos\u201d could sit comfortably along side many of the tracks on <i>Rid of Me<\/i>. There\u2019s a similarity in both vocal and guitar phrasing as well as the interplay between the two elements. And while Torres doesn\u2019t have Harvey\u2019s blues snarl in her arsenal, there are times when she comes of like a distant cousin, especially when she invokes a similar type of Gothic storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>While Torres does unquestionably wear her influences on her sleeve, <i>Sprinter<\/i> isn\u2019t simply a mimeographed copy of them. The songs are fairly tightly drawn narratives that lead to the chorus instead of killing time until then. The guitar parts aren\u2019t superfluous; they\u2019re atmospheric when they need to be and full of attack when it\u2019s time to accentuate a point. Torres is a fluid guitar player who shies away from guitar hero heroics, while Ellis and the rest provide parts that are interesting but don\u2019t draw attention away. The songs and the vocals are the focus and even the little fiddly production touches accentuate them. It\u2019s a fairly consistent record where even the stylistic diversions\u2014like the relatively poppy, drum machine\u2013driven \u201cCowboy Guilt\u201d\u2014seem to make sense. While Torres might have the chops and ability to grab the listener by the throat, instead she\u2019s confident enough to slowly draw him in. On <i>Sprinter<\/i>, she takes all the lessons from the past for a record smartly put together in the now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much in the way Dr. Martens and flannel shirts have slowly come back into vogue, the guitar-driven sonics of the \u201890s have been on a similar return path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1261,1253],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-partisan-records","tag-torres"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Torres Sprinter - The Agit Reader<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/torres-sprinter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Torres Sprinter - The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Much in the way Dr. Martens and flannel shirts have slowly come back into vogue, the guitar-driven sonics of the \u201890s have been on a similar return path.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/torres-sprinter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Agit Reader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheAgitReader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-12T19:23:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-19T17:00:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/torres-sprinter.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dorian S. 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