TORRES is the pseudonym of Mackenzie Scott. She was born January 23, 1991, and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife Jenna, stepson Silas, and puppy Sylvia. She has been releasing albums and performing as TORRES since 2013. What an enormous room is TORRES’ sixth studio album (her third with Merge). It was recorded in September and October 2022 at Stadium Heights Sound in Durham, North Carolina. It was engineered by Ryan Pickett, produced by Mackenzie Scott and Sarah Jaffe, mixed by TJ Allen in Bristol, UK, and mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC. The album contains 10 songs. Mackenzie wrote all of them. Sarah played bass guitar, synths, drums, organ, and piano. Mackenzie sang vocals, played guitar, bass, synths, organ, piano, and programmed drums. Additional synth bass, tambourine, and shakers were played by TJ Allen.

Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, and currently based in Western Massachusetts, violinist and singer-songwriter Aisha Burns began playing violin when she was 10 years old, and has been touring and recording since 2006. Soon after moving to Austin in 2005, she gained her start with folk-rock outfit Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band, and joined the instrumental ensemble Balmorhea on violin in 2007. After years of secret singing, she released her solo debut Life in the Midwater in 2013. Called "twisting, ethereal...arresting" by Dazed Magazine, and praised for its "delicate intimacy" by NPR, Life in the Midwater explored mortality and relationships with candor and wisdom. Her new album, Argonauta, is a collection of songs about her struggle with the grief of losing her mother, while also navigating a new relationship, and ultimately trying to discern the new normal for her life.

KID TIGRRR is the new solo project of singer-songwriter Jenna Fournier, a painter/visual artist best known for fronting the shoegaze hybrid NIIGHTS, which formed in 2010. Following three studio releases and four international tours to Japan with her band, Fournier parted ways with her record label and ventured into audio engineering to experiment with home music production in 2020. Her first single, dubbed by the artist an 'anti-single,' is a haunting, hypnotic piece unfolding over nearly seven minutes. The song 'Shapes of Water' began as an official demo for EarthQuaker Devices' Aqueduct vibrato pedal, and then evolved into a set staple performed with live-looping. It was later recorded live for Dreamgaze Fest, a world-wide music festival presented virtually by DKFM Shoegaze Radio during the pandemic. Jenna then went on to track the song at home, adding layers of electronics into the soundscape. Earlier this year, Fournier's vision was fully manifested with the addition of live drums to finish off the recording, resulting in an ethereal blend of ambient post-rock that explores themes of cycles and regeneration. 'Shapes of Water' is the first track released from Kid Tigrrr's upcoming debut LP, Stoned and Animald. Lyrically, the album courageously tackles heavy topics including mental health, abuse, and addiction.  Fournier's most personal work to date is also her first musical release she recorded and produced largely by herself. Finding inspiration from her long-time DIY hero Grouper,  she set out to make something minimal in the way of clean, sparkly, dark bedroom-dream-pop, but the project grew into something much more layered than she initially envisioned over the course of three years in the making. The finished album is experimental yet polished, maintaining the shoegaze influence heard in her band while embracing her early folk roots as a songwriter.    Stoned and Animald is set to roll out over the next several months into Spring with videos to go along with the songs, and Kid Tigrrr assures you that Niights also has new music in store for fans who like some rock to go with their 'gaze.