Also I wonder whether "Downhill Lullaby" will make the album or if it will remain a one-off
― J. Sam, Saturday, 2 April 2022 02:17 (two years ago) link
here's hoping the new single is more memorable than "Downhill Lullaby"
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 3 April 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CduS7o6rkyN/
single coming on the 25th, supposedly
― ufo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
single has also apparently leaked but i haven't bothered to track it down yet
― ufo, Thursday, 19 May 2022 13:18 (two years ago) link
Finding leaks feels like so much work now lol I'm fine with waiting 6 days.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
I lied.
But tbh I should have waited. It's...fine, no more.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 20 May 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjEV8O4fgeg
unfortunately i probably will forget this
― ufo, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
sounds like dirty 80s ass, 2 days no shower
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 22:37 (two years ago) link
sounds good to me
― Spottie, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 22:41 (two years ago) link
I'm just happy she is out there (hopefully she sticks around). I really need to stop liking part time models who are singers. They love throwing crumbs and then going back to hiding. Looking at you Grace Jones and Cassie.
― lilsoulbrother, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
I appreciate her commitment to this particular overheated and utterly bit crushed aesthetic
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
there's no tune though
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Thursday, 26 May 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
This song should soundtrack the scene in an 80s movie where the rich old guy paid for his girlfriend's demo tape and then there's a shot where he's listening to the playback and realizes he just threw his money away.
― PBKR, Thursday, 26 May 2022 01:37 (two years ago) link
The song is just ok, but it's great to hear her voice again. Also digging the quasi-MBV whammy guitar on the chorus
― J. Sam, Thursday, 26 May 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
I guess it makes sense that this already sounds so dated considering we've been waiting for Masochism since 2015. I suspect this song's been sitting around either finished or unfinished for as long as 8 years.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 26 May 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
here's hoping the new single is more memorable than "Downhill Lullaby"― Murgatroid, Sunday, April 3, 2022 2:51 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Murgatroid, Sunday, April 3, 2022 2:51 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
lol welp
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 26 May 2022 02:19 (two years ago) link
i like them both
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 03:19 (two years ago) link
I really like this, not sure it was worth waiting a decade for but I love the bending guitars in the chorus and her voice sounds great.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 26 May 2022 07:36 (two years ago) link
It’s too bad this stuff couldn’t have just come out as an album as opposed to drop by drop. (There are probably extenuating circumstances for why, of course.) As a mass of tunes, there would be a different feel to things.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:09 (two years ago) link
As it happens, listening to NTRT last weekend, first time in years, I thought, this is surely one of the decade's most powerful albums, no? One of the more searing album-long inquiries into industry exploitation.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:56 (two years ago) link
she's still calling it masochism? i would have guessed it wouldn't be that similar to what she had planned for it way back when -- but then again based on this song, maybe it is lol
i like the song tho! it's no revelation but it's solid. btw "downhill lullaby" was great in its way and would probably be viewed more favorably if it had actually been followed with the album instead of being some random one-off thing
― dyl, Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
new song is like a shattered '80s synth pop song with the shards reassembled out of order, love listening to it
"downhill lullaby" still like a cigarette drag in slow motion 10/10
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 May 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
"out of order" is actually the first thing i thought of when i listened to the song! it sounds like a good song with all the elements out of order
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 26 May 2022 16:45 (two years ago) link
downhill lullaby is amazing (havent listened to this yet just needed to intervene)
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
ok I listened to the new one, also great
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
downhill lullaby makes me think of bobbie gentry, 100/10
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:01 (two years ago) link
ooh "Don't Forget" works
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 May 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link
Pitchfork review swing and a miss
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 27 May 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
it's a good song, reminds me of michael damian's version of "rock on" at times lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 27 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
I never became a music writer for a reason, but even I would never use the phrases "pretty bland" or "rock-tinged." I guess everyone's got to start somewhere, and that's what blogspot used to be for. Is there nowhere else to practice writing now before Pitchfork hires you?
Anyway, agree with the overall assertion that it's not a great single, but whew that review.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 27 May 2022 18:54 (two years ago) link
do campus papers, esp. those for smaller schools, exist anymore or has the state of publishing + the laser-targeted focus of conservatives on post-secondary campus matters bludgeoned them into oblivion
― Murgatroid, Friday, 27 May 2022 19:11 (two years ago) link
It’s a great single imho. People are confused because it’s retro or whatever. But she clearly cares about this stuff—the purpose of the surfaces—to a greater degree than most. Lyrics are great
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 27 May 2022 19:16 (two years ago) link
I think it's great, and it made more of an impression than "Downhill Lullaby" (which I did like, but I'm sure I will appreciate more in album context if that ever happens).
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Saturday, 28 May 2022 00:41 (two years ago) link
it's not a big stylistic shift from the album but the lack of hooks is
― ufo, Saturday, 28 May 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
What “lack of hooks” lol
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 28 May 2022 09:16 (two years ago) link
revisiting her old stuff, "lost in my bedroom" is still my favorite song of all time
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
"heavy metal heart" is the best sleigh bells song ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
i may have already said this but i expected an immaculately pretty synth-pop effort from sky and got something much grungier and more gross so it makes sense why i couldn't get my head around it at first. thank god though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
think i also identified new wave specifically because so much of this album sounds like a blondie record that was remastered too hot (a compliment, a perfect sound)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
OTM x1000. Very close to album of the decade for me
― J. Sam, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
Japanese xmas might finally come this year
― J. Sam, Saturday, 28 May 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jun/17/i-got-robbed-of-my-20s-sky-ferreira-on-fighting-her-record-label-and-refusing-to-compromise
― ufo, Saturday, 18 June 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
my brief run of posts upthread where i expressed my indifference toward/hatred of night time, my time especially hilarious now that i think it's the best record of its kind, whatever that kind is, a mutation of new//wave//alt//rock so breathy and aggressive and wounded and hostile and seductively dangerous it's like a mouth in the earth opening onto hell. title track is like whatever machine made the rest of the record broke down and started producing only motion blurs. best album ever― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 28 May 2022 18:45 (three weeks ago) link
Those posts are hilarious because to me this is such a brad record.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 June 2022 00:43 (one year ago) link
Omanko is one of the most outrageous things ever to appear on a mainstream pop album? Really impressed
― imago, Saturday, 27 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Still think every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing," which seems to be the song most people (who came late) gravitate towards. ¯\(ツ)/¯
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 05:52 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― imago, Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
Serious Madonna vibes in that latest track.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:20 (one year ago) link
xp yeah "Omanko" is absolutely outrageous. It reminds me of Stereolab's "OLV 26" with noisier guitars. And I totally agree that every song on the album is better than "Everything Is Embarrassing"
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 August 2022 22:45 (one year ago) link
Let’s calm down guys. We can be friends with NTMT and Everything is Embarassing.
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:56 (one year ago) link
Haha "Everything Is Embarrassing" is great, I just like the album more. Cool thing is we don't have to choose one or the other!
― J. Sam, Sunday, 28 August 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link