SKY FERREIRA

presence also

moodles is correct that sky is louder

Just heard this for the first time and I love it! It's the song Sky was born to cover. As much as I love the Till Tuesday version (and I really do!), I think Sky's vocals are superior Aimee's.

Also that bass is amazing! I don't have high hopes but it'd be great if they polished it a little bit and it became a proper release.

*superior to Aimee's

How did this cover become my favorite track of 2018? There's been a lot of good music this year but I keep coming back to this. Where's the fookin ablum?

Mine too!

it's a great song

https://www.instagram.com/p/BqLPaqLBbh8/

not getting my hopes up yet but maybe this means new music in the coming months...?

I’m releasing music this month 🥴 (for real)

— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) March 6, 2019

The first song isn’t a pop song...because I really want to make a video for it (& I love it). I’m confident about all of the pop songs on my record so I decided to start with something different. 🤠

— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) March 6, 2019

please be true

🏹💔🥀03/27/19🥀💔🏹

DOWNHILL LULLABY pic.twitter.com/gHr9ikW5mJ

— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) March 21, 2019

!

a date! with the month and year specified!

I think this is just a single, no? Either way, yes!

I'm stoked thinking there'll be a Sky Ferreira album released in 2019. I avoid singles like I avoid movie trailers, but can't wait!

i can barely think about this for fear of jinxing tbh

Same

i can barely think about this for fear of jinxing tbh

― difficult listening hour, Sunday, March 24, 2019 4:45 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha relateable

is everyone asleep? afraid of jinxing it? looks we're a go:

SKY FERREIRA RETURNS: THE MASOCHISM INTERVIEW

With an uncompromising vision and the studio hours to back it up, the enigmatic singer is back with a new single—and a promise that her first album in six years will be worth the wait.

Additionally, Sky is even more particular about her final mixes. She will only be satisfied after she’s evaluated her song in seven different listening contexts: a car stereo; a smartphone with “regular” headphones; a smartphone with Apple earbuds; a smartphone’s built-in speaker; on a laptop; through “really bad, bad computer speakers—like the ones that came with Dells back in the early 2000s”; and the lush splendor of the studio, which is a personal luxury because, as she notes, “most people aren’t gonna listen that way.”

Smart move

So new song, pretty different, more of a dirge than a pop smash.

reminds me of kym brown/pj harvey or ema on their ballads/carina round/that whole entire swath of things I like, plus even more strings

(also the song lana del rey has attempted but failed to make for almost a decade)

Idk, this is a decent grunge ballad, but the last three singles LDR released are all way better.

I completely disagree with that on a few levels but this does fucking rule xp

it's totally free of irony/distancing for starters (AFAICT on first listen)

actually the vibe on this one is downright Dulli-esque

i don't see why ldr needed to be brought up in either a negative or positive capacity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8x55qS3chA

here i posted the song

I don't see how it's an invalid comparison to compare a purposefully dirge-y ballad with a prominent string arrangement to the work of an artist who primarily records purposefully dirge-y ballads with prominent string arrangements

ok you got me, i just dislike it when anyone praises a song with a negative comparison

kim gordon vibes

Sky is even more particular about her final mixes. She will only be satisfied after she’s evaluated her song in seven different listening contexts: a car stereo; a smartphone with “regular” headphones; a smartphone with Apple earbuds; a smartphone’s built-in speaker; on a laptop; through “really bad, bad computer speakers—like the ones that came with Dells back in the early 2000s”; and the lush splendor of the studio, which is a personal luxury because, as she notes, “most people aren’t gonna listen that way.”

that's basically how everyone who's mixed a song in the past 30 years works.

I'd guess the distinction there is that she's doing it (but also I've heard mixers hate artists who do this kind of thing)

("this kind of thing" = being particular and/or perfectionist about the final mix)

Strange to read about the whole perfectionism thing when the new track is sounding a lot like a demo to me. Like, the vocals seem lost in in the mix? I'm not a fan, TBH. Maybe my expectations were a little too high after Voices Carry, which sounds like a million times better than this.

Every engineer I've ever worked with recommended listening to mixes on a range of speakers.

This sounds much more polished than Voices Carry, but definitely has some deliberately dry sounding drums and vocals that maybe make it sound a bit rougher.

Stunning song.

oh, I mean, every engineer I've worked with listens to mixes on a range of speakers, I'm just struck by the disparity between how fans/music journalists view artists who do dozens/hundreds of takes (very positively) and how engineers do (very negatively)

(I land on the "very positively" side myself)

I suspect the more established the artist and bigger the recording budget, the more positively inclined an engineer might be.

The more money you have the more you can obsess and unmix tracks by too much tweaking

The bass guitar sound on this probably links it more the my old 4AD favorites than it likely would otherwise, but I'm ok with being microtargeted.

Interesting, it reminds me of the bass tone on "Come As You Are".

I did not enjoy this :(

I was wondering why everywhere said this sampled bittersweet symphony despite it... not

It doesn’t have anything to do with the Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” It’s completely unrelated. I was JOKING!What a mess.Please take it out if written & out of your brains. I spent so much time recording/writing/arranging it & having people play it. It’s completely original.

— Sky Ferreira (@skyferreira) March 27, 2019

she seems chill