SKY FERREIRA

2013 was a great year for Ariel Rechtshaid. Anything worth checking out by him from 2014 thru now?

thank you, btw, to the gross awful sexist hacks at la weekly for reminding me she's playing here next week. just got my tix.

her best song is obv "you're not the one"

clearly

def a top 10 from the last 5 years for me

same

You're Not the One reminds me a bit of In A Big Country, and not in a bad way

we'll see about that won't we
we'll see about that won't we

You're Not the One reminds me of a lot of "Public Image", also not in a bad way.

one of the last CD i have ever bought, got the two disc version. i think it is fine but not one of the best of this decade but maybe i need to play a bit more.

I adore "You're Not The One" but it's very twinned with "Heavy Metal Heart" for me, I can't imagine thinking of one as a standout vis a vis the other.

Don't sleep on "I Blame Myself," people

i'm not it is a highlight but something like "Omanko" sort of left me cold.

"you're not the one" is prob the best sky song but my fav is "love in stereo"

I probably complain upthread about how it doesn't have much of a chorus. it has exactly the right amount of chorus

god i love "omanko"

omanko is the jamc-est one and i tend to loop it like six times in a row, but real highlight (at the moment) is either i blame myself or ain't your right. "we'll see about that won't we" poss my favorite moment.

terrific album yeah. i listened to it for the first time just a few weeks ago and had it in regular rotation by the time the l.a. weekly piece happened. when synchronicity sucks.

every day i hear them saying something else i know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYsJWzdfdtg

i like the whole album, but that song is really something: vulnerable but bitter... self pity transmogrified into ANGER, which is the only way it ever heals, as anyone who listens to punk already knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1gDuaY8-V4

i love the pauses on this track. 1:27: "you put my faith... back in..... boys. back in.... boys" followed by that sputtering engine shoegaze guitar effect. i could listen to that forever.

i am also a fan of the album art. weirdos claimed at the time she looked terrified, like she was about to be attacked, but i don't see fear on her face at all. more like anger or disdain or maybe just resolve. almost all of the emotions reflected in the songs can be read into her expression here. it's a good portrait, even if i am not a big fan of gaspar noe overall

Yeah, it's a very Highway 61-esque "fuck you" kind look. Anyone who says she looks terrified needs their head examined.

*kind of

her expression doesn't indicate fear, but her physical posture is somewhat defensive. torso turned away from the camera, shoulders up, chin tucked. can see as how it might read as threatened, wary.

def. she's "turning away" from people's expectations of her as a musician and a public figure, casting a cold eye on the culture that wants to pin her down as one thing or the other.

the cover fits with the album's lyrical preoccupations imo.

not listened to this in ages,
so this thread revival did a good thing as it's f*cking brilliant.

everything I'd want in a new JAMC album & more

this is not that far removed from my opinion re this album.

kristine = JAMC vs girl pop = perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OJl6Z4afEU

love the twitchy guitars and synths churning in the background

Dang, I was hoping this was bumped for something from the new album

you blame yourself

You think you know me so well

Yikes, the only vinyl copy of this on Amazon is going for $85

weird.

i'm psyched for the new album but also worried about what it will be like, with that provocative title and all

treeship that revive was an act of violence

Weird to think it's been longer since the album came out than it was between the time this thread started and the album was finally released.

Sry for false revive.

arrgh

album never came out cuz the label gave her entire budget to halsey

Hang on, I don't want that to be true, but I also believe it could be?

Either way, fuck Halsey.

it's what i heard a while back... i'm sure it's not the whole story but it's seems eminently plausible

fuck that sucks

sounds like it's coming out this year though?

Looking forward to seeing her in "Twin Peaks"

i thought by now we'd have a new sky ferreira album and i'd have seen her on twin peaks and hillary clinton would be the president

I almost revived this thread a day or two ago for the same reason.

fucking hell I want a new sky ferreira record it's been way too long. I can't believe that LA Weekly article was a year ago.

treeship OTM

;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Qn0KxGdNc

she has a commodores cover on a soundtrack that just came out. i missed her voice.

Ooh, she's apparently on the new Jesus and Mary Chain album (which I hadn't listened to yet, but am now)