Mackenzie Scott of TORRES and Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats have announced a new collaborative EP called A Decoration. Arriving August 9, the EP is being previewed with lead single "Married for Love," which finds the pair singing over a gentle, twinkling wash of synthetic folk pop.
"In working together, Scott and Johnson neither changed TORRES or Fruit Bats at their core to suit their collaborator's ideas," a statement on the pair's Bandcamp states. "Nor did they merely look for places in each other's music where they could fit themselves in,"
"Married for Love" began as a TORRES demo. In a statement about the track, Scott explained:
The recording we're releasing is synthy, but the demo was darker and had no acoustic instruments on it. I sent it to him and he turned it into what he described as a Quaker chant. He made it softer and added these beautiful harmonies, something you could almost imagine hearing in a church as opposed to the nightclubby vibe I had going.
TORRES and Fruit Bats both released their most recent albums last year — What an Enormous Room and A River Running to Your Heart, respectively.
Check out "Married for Love" and see the A Decoration tracklist below.
A Decoration:
1. A Decoration
2. Still Want More
3. The Fox
4. Married for Love
5. In the Old Style
6. Pink Triangle