Indie rock singer, Torres, and the indie folk band, Fruit Bats, have announced that they will be releasing a collaborative EP, A Decoration. They have also shared the first single from the EP, “Married for Love.”

Fruit Bats’ frontman, Eric D. Johnson, told Brooklyn Vegan about the upcoming collaboration with Torres, also known as Mackenzie Scott. Johnson stated, “Mackenzie and I worked on this in a breezy way where all ideas and sounds were fair game. We each brought a few sketches into the initial ideas pile and treated them in a way like we were doing remixes of each other’s songs. There were no wrong answers. The back and forth continued until the music was in a totally different place from where it began.”

Johnson elaborated on the effect that this creative process had on the EP, stating, “This process assured that the final EP kinda sounds like nothing either of us has ever done—it’s a collection of wishful love chants, patiently unfolding fuzzy loops, danceable ambience, and pleas to the universe.” (via Brooklyn Vegan)

The two certainly took this breezy approach for this new single. According to Brooklyn Vegan, “Married for Love” started out as a demo for Scott. She shared how the new single came together, stating, “The recording we’re releasing is synthy, but the demo was darker and had no acoustic instruments on it. I sent it to [Johnson] 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.”

The release of this new EP comes after the January release of Torres’ sixth studio album, What an Enormous Room.

A Decoration will be released on August 9th, with a exclusive vinyl release at the Merge 35 festival this July. This festival is also where Scott and Johnson will finally meet in person, since the EP was made completely remotely.

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