Julien Baker and TORRES Announce Joint Album ‘Ship a Prayer My Means’

Julien Baker and TORRES are formally teaming up for a full-length collaborative album, Ship a Prayer My Means, due April 18 by means of Matador Information.

The announcement comes only a month after the duo debuted their first unmarried, “Sugar within the Tank,” and now, they’ve dropped some other tune, “Sylvia.”

The challenge has been years within the making, with its roots tracing again to 2016 when Baker and TORRES first performed a display in combination. That night time, the speculation of constructing a rustic album was once casually thrown out. Just about a decade later, that passing remark has was a full-fledged file.

The 11-track album fuses vintage nation storytelling with reflections on trendy struggles, navigating subject matters of affection, loss, and existence at the street.

Their newest unmarried, “Sylvia,” carries private weight for TORRES, who wrote the music about adopting her canine. In a remark, she recalled the instant that impressed the tune: “The morning I went to pick out up my canine Sylvia from an upstate refuge, I used to be at house making my espresso and I grew to become on WFMU and Dolly Parton’s ‘Cracker Jack’ was once on. I burst into tears—it felt just like the universe was once telling me she was once going to be mine.”

She added, “I have in mind considering that I’d love to jot down a music like that. A music that individuals may really feel of their chest inside of 5 seconds of turning at the radio, as a result of someone who has ever had the glory of sharing a house with a liked puppy is aware of {that a} puppy is circle of relatives.”

At the side of the album announcement, Baker and TORRES have showed a string of pageant dates to reinforce Ship a Prayer My Means, together with appearances at Giant Ears in Tennessee, Top Water Song Pageant in North Carolina, and Inexperienced River Pageant in Massachusetts.

Baker has prior to now discovered good fortune as a member of boygenius along Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. The trio’s debut full-length album, the file, landed at No. 4 at the Billboard 200 in 2023, whilst Baker’s solo album Little Oblivions peaked at No. 39. TORRES, recognized for her sharp, introspective songwriting, has constructed a devoted following with seriously acclaimed releases like Thirstier and 3 Futures. With Ship a Prayer My Means, the duo merges their strengths for an album that blends nostalgia with modern day reflections.

Movement “Sylvia” beneath.