[1][2] After high school, Scott moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to attend Belmont University, where she received a degree in songwriting and a minor in English literature.

In July 2012, while still a student, Scott recorded her debut album Torres over a five-day session at Tony Joe White's home studio in Franklin, Tennessee, with engineer and producer Ryan McFadden.

[2] Scott has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe with a wide variety of musicians, including Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Okkervil River, Sharon Van Etten, and Hamilton Leithauser.

Scott described Sprinter as "something that would feel massive and heavy" with electronic elements, deliberate guitars and languid arrangements.

She also opened for Garbage and Brandi Carlile, her early musical idol, in 2015, and joined Tegan and Sara for their November 2016 tour.

Music website Pitchfork Media named Torres's debut single, "Honey", best new track, describing it as "an arena-rock moment happening on an empty stage […] with its slow-burn intensity and coiled energy".

The Rolling Stone describes the album as "offering conflicted images of emotional and physical release over bracing industrial-rock textures".

[20] The AV Club also praised Three Futures describing it as "hazily fascinating, flowing naturally through its various peaks and valleys, and it succeeds in Scott's goal of being truly immersive listening", while rating the album an A−.

[21] Consequence of Sound gave the album a B+, describing Scott's ability to pursue new musical directions "with poise and confidence…"[22] DIY also awarded Three Futures 4 out of 5 stars and noted Scott takes a step forward without forgetting what made her previous albums successful, by venturing into "previously little-trodden ground in sumptuous new ways".

[23] In 2017, Scott met American painter Jenna Gribbon at a bar in the East Village,[24] and by 2019, they had moved into a "live-work space" in Bushwick, Brooklyn together.