SKY FERREIRA

listening to this for the first time after downloading it from itunes. "Boys" is pretty good. i like the heaviness of it a lot.

itunes censored the album cover which isn't a big deal except she is pretty touchy about larger forces messing with her shit. if i was itunes i would have backed off and let her do what she wanted.

why has no one posted nabisco's article about her

lol itunes backing off

fine
http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/sky-ferreira-on-becoming-a-pop-star.html

nabisco's article is great

i just finished my first listen and i... have mixed feelings? i am def compelled to listen more tho

so far i am in love with this but i can't trust myself, because everything i've listened to tonight has sounded amazing. is there a thread about that kind of mood?

thumbs up imo

didnt find it partic dark, nor beyond 'you're not the one' did i srsly feel the teen rock pathos in my bones or anything, just damn good cherry pie basically

within a fortnight i will probably be appropriately semi-bored about it

i guess the earnestness of her lifelong struggle to make this super quotidian post-teen angst record is fairly disarming, like ordinarily i might have just thrown it in the haim bonfire if it was anyone fresh n cute up in my grill

anyone really buying into the personal narrative here is a halfwit or at worst a creep though, this record is from the saturday girl behind the topshop till serving sky's stylist more so than she herself

case in point, 'nobody asked me (if i was okay)' is way way way better once you get past the butthurt reading and instead pick up the triumphant vibe like it was a less eloquent/mordant 'ain't it fun', which it is

compared to "you're not the one" the rest of this seems like half-composed synth pop

I really liked "Everything is Embarrassing" but the 'RIYL Haim, Lorde, Salem's TMZ tendencies' appeal of all of this sorta makes me wanna wretch

*retch

"i blame myself" is so good

They put together some of these tracks very quickly, so "half-composed" and "under-composed" are definitely ... potential drawbacks. But part of what I like about the album is the way it can accommodate those loose, unfussy tracks -- songs like "Kristine," the ones that feel like they're just delighted to be able to hang around in their happy private space making noise and cooing to themselves.

i guess the earnestness of her lifelong struggle to make this super quotidian post-teen angst record is fairly disarming

The thing I find interesting about the whole narrative behind her isn't some cheerleading "girl against the industry" thing -- it's that she winds up with an experience that connects so perfectly with certain types of quotidian teen angst! I mean: feeling controlled, feeling like nobody takes you seriously, feeling like your peers all gossip about you, having people think your boyfriend may be bad news ... it's like central-casting young-person issues blown up to IMAX scale, or at least Sofia Coppola film scale. And she seems very young and self-dramatizing about it in a way that's considered uncool and messy for people in the public eye, but gives the music a lot more passion, I think.

yeah that's what i said

ja

But part of what I like about the album is the way it can accommodate those loose, unfussy tracks

yeah what i said wasn't necessarily a... criticism.

it is a v pleasant synth pop album, parts of which seem intentionally broken

this witchhouse synthpop biz is being overstated a tad i think, doesnt it really just sound like hole or whatever (nb i have never heard a hole album)

sounds right up my alley, then. looking forward to this xp

sounds like kim wilde except when it sounds like pink except when it sounds like spacemen 3, p good album

ya otm

i'm waiting for it to get dark or gloomy outside before playing this

don't feel like the sunshine would enhance it

another...15 minutes should do it

The weirdest resemblance on this is how much "Love in Stereo" sounds like the Blow, to the point where I initially thought it might be a co-write / co-vocal

Also this "music" she creates "blows*."

*chunks

She’s pale and chic, with choppy dyed-blonde hair and sullen glowering eyes, and just overall seems like she should be smoking a cigarette behind the gym of a high school circa 1994.

lol

second half seems stronger on first listen, digging the whole thing though...

LOVE THIS ALBUM

so sullen <33333

really great and interesting piece n1tsuh too!

aahhhhh which 90s grunge girl is she reminding me of? it's not QUITE courtney, there's more ennui than rip-your-throat-out rage. there's definitely someone though

or is it more latter-day people like the raveonettes?

i love "everything is embarrassing" but i'm so glad it was a red herring

I'm liking the aesthetic here, I've never paid much attention before but it's like she's taking generic Austra-like gothy synthpop and slathering it with grunge surliness.

bubblegrunge, that was a thing right

The reference points being flung around make me very excited to hear this.

A friend on Facebook said Live Through This meets Erotica but surely it can't be THAT good.

rtc have you really not heard Celebrity Skin? It's like the year zero for a certain kind of sound that ends up with Ashlees and Paramores and what have you.

This isn't actually that much like any iteration of Hole though.

A friend on Facebook said Live Through This meets Erotica but surely it can't be THAT good

Of course not, that would make it the best record of all time.

aahhhhh which 90s grunge girl is she reminding me of? it's not QUITE courtney, there's more ennui than rip-your-throat-out rage. there's definitely someone though

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 October 2013 19:29 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg.... wait... brainwave... is it shirley

Celebrity Skin is essential definitely.

xp "Red Lips" was a Shirley Manson co-write, so Sky may have carried over a little from their collaboration.

i was thinking shirley but i dunno not quiiiiiiite not quite, less steely and droidy

like this is is a pretty fuzzy album, not all sharp sheen like garbage

only heard the sleb skin singles iirc

tbh in this field i quite enjoy being otm on minimal expertise so i don't really wanna start rocking the boat doing proper research now

this sounds like every '90s album I've bought used and loved that never made it to spotify or reissues (this is about the highest compliment I can bestow)

Lex, without having heard it yet, your description sounds a bit like early Veruca Salt?

er, to clarify, this is about the highest compliment any album could possibly get from me, not "meh, that's as positive as I can get"

Did you know? I once owned albums from both Poe and Bif Naked.

veruca salt is too much ennui i think

idk lex, tender shirley not avenging angel shirley though? (and def tude not sound)