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7.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott as Torres was produced by Rob Ellis.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Sep 26, 2017
    91
    There aren’t many hooks to be found here, which means a lot of Three Futures sort of blurs together. But it’s all hazily fascinating, flowing naturally through its various peaks and valleys, and it succeeds in Scott’s goal of being truly immersive listening--something that reveals itself to you in strange new ways each time you return.
  2. Oct 9, 2017
    80
    The fascinating ways she puts songs and stories together on Three Futures reveals more with each listen.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 26, 2017
    80
    The dissonant guitars and whirring synths land on the more accessible side of avant-garde rock, veering into sia-esque pop on tracks like "Greener Stretch," though revelling in never quite resolving its melodies. [Nov 2017, p.36]
  4. Nov 13, 2017
    80
    Easy listening it isn’t, but Three Futures cuts into the tangled complexities of human connection with an uncannily unwavering precision.
  5. Oct 10, 2017
    75
    The music is now lush where once it was loud, layered and thoughtful where it was immediate.
  6. Oct 16, 2017
    70
    Her narrative sees all, experiences all, but keeps a remove in the dry, mechanical beats, the tamped down drama of synthetic accompaniment, the vocal lines that only once and a while slip past a murmur into wilder swoops and yelps. This is a cerebral, abstracted album about the physical, one that deals in potentialities and implied trajectories, rather than the immediacy of pulse and sweat and organ functions.
  7. Mojo
    Sep 27, 2017
    60
    If Three Futures lack depth, then, it's only because everything inside has been dragged out, up to the surface, into the light. [Nov 2017, p.98]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Dec 11, 2017
    9
    while this one takes a few more listens than a certain fabulously gripping second full-length, Three Futures is hands-down her best work towhile this one takes a few more listens than a certain fabulously gripping second full-length, Three Futures is hands-down her best work to date. I understand a feeling of confusion with the more synthesized tracks such as Marble Focus and the new wave Greener Stretch, but after I got two full listens, this album made so much sense. her signature alt-rock guitar riffing is still prominent in this album. Torres' knack for catchy, interesting melodic pathways is stronger than ever before, with phenomenal cuts such as Righteous Woman, Bad Baby Pie and Skim. this is also her most sonically diverse album, with the aforementioned new wave cut, and even a surprise pop-punk banger: Helen in the Woods. her lyrics are as introspective and compelling as ever, and her melodies only seem to be getting more and more polished. highly recommend. Expand
  2. Oct 1, 2017
    6
    While I do respect her choice of switching from a 90s alt-rock sound to a more synthetic sound, and to be fair the instrumentation is prettyWhile I do respect her choice of switching from a 90s alt-rock sound to a more synthetic sound, and to be fair the instrumentation is pretty solid, so it;'s not like Torres didn't know what she was doing nor playing it safe, Tree Futures is just not very interesting and often falls under bland electronic ambeint sound with a rock edge to it. But unfortunately it's not very exciting rock music so it's just kind of dull white noise. There are some interesting songs here and there, like Righteous Woman, and like I said before Torres is confident with this sound choice and nothing is played terribly or there were flat out bad song ideas, it's just not very interesting to me at least. I can see people digging this though, which is why I'm being a bit forgiving with my rating. Expand