Julien baker and Torres announce new album Send A Prayer My Way

After the release of their first single "Sugar in the Tank,” Julien Baker & TORRES have announced the April 18 Matador records release of their debut album Send a Prayer My Way
Julien Baker & Torres photo Ebru Yildiz

After the release of their first single “Sugar in the Tank,” Julien Baker & TORRES have announced the April 18 Matador records release of their debut album Send a Prayer My Way. The album has been in the works since the two played their first show together in 2016 and at the end one singer turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” This is the origin story, the stuff of legend in the world of country music, and the beginning of a collaboration between two artists already admired for their spare, elegant lyrics as well as the courage to share their struggles with those who love their music.

Today Julien Baker & TORRES also share a new single, “Syliva”. TORRES says, “The morning I went to pick up Sylvia from an upstate shelter, I was at home making my coffee and I turned on WFMU and Dolly Parton’s “Cracker Jack” was on. I burst into tears—it felt like the universe was telling me she was going to be mine (Sylvia was only meant to be a foster). I remember thinking that I’d love to write a song like that, a song that people could feel in their chest within five seconds of turning on the radio, because anyone who has ever had the honor of sharing a home with a beloved pet knows that a pet is family—they’re the best friends you could ever have.

Julien Baker, A native of Memphis who began playing music in church as a child, released her debut album Sprained Ankle in 2025. Recorded in only a few days, it was a bleak yet hopeful meditation on identity, addiction, faith, resilience and redemption. The album was followed by her Matador records debut Turn Out the Lights and the following year’s self-titled debut EP with boygenius, the trio she formed with fellow era-defining artists Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. With the release of her 2021’s solo album Little Oblivions. Baker reunited with boygenius in 2023 for their first full-length, the record, which won three Grammy Awards and was supported by the biggest tour of the musicians’ collective careers –including sold out shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.

TORRES is the project of Mackenzie Scott. The artist released her last album What an enormous room in 2023 via Merge Records. 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.

Pre-order Send A Prayer My Way HERE

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