SKY FERREIRA

not that I condemning or anything

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okay seeing that interview where she was talking about how she only started doing music bcz she hated school so much and was looking for an excuse to drop out kinda made me loathe her as a person but that thing just made me adore her again

i have a feeling the p4k show was one of her 'self-medicated' performances lol

i hope her next record will sound like Omanko, Kristine and not like the rest.
love those songs.

Why is this not on Spotify or iTunes? Or maybe that's just my country

it's not out in most of the world yet

it's on us spotify

Jesus and mary chain style
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dat ariel cover tho. love him thru and thru but also love the idea of starlets going in and glossing out his trove

Yeah, I just got around to seeing it. A+++++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odg5lHuwPf4

She was sexually abused when she was younger: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/02/sky-ferreira-album-drugs-sexual-abuse-interview

Also, this is new: Tim Jonze's trip to New York was paid for by Universal.

That phrase has been seen in The Guardian MANY times before.

Oh, apologies, I don't often to over to the music section in the Guardian and the times I have, that bit hasn't shown up.

Sexual abuse news isn't new either. She talked about it in an interview with Rookie a couple of years ago, and probably before that too. http://rookiemag.com/2012/02/sky-ferreira/

i think the interview w/ tavi was the first i had heard about it

universal owns capitol now instead of emi right?

I used to be able to tell who owned who by the style of the cassette. Now I have no idea.

Sky Ferreira signs deal with Lady Gaga's former manager Troy Carter

Great, I guess she'll have a Christmas tv special this year.

Is this album supposed to sound as distorted and overdriven as it seems? Or is it my stereo/copy?

yeah that's how they all sound -- the mixing was very rushed

this album is great

In particular, I think the bracing production is integral to the thing, and brilliant in its mechanical rawness.

at first blush this sounded really gray and drab but i listened to it again last week and couldn't resist boppin to it

i read the production as totally crystalline

I have decided that "Heavy Metal Heart" is my number one jam on this album.

HMH def my runner up to YNtO

The tension in the chorus of HMH = A+

I love "You're Not The One" but I feel like "Heavy Metal Heart" actually slightly improves on the formula, it's even more monolithic in that unstoppable and uncontrollable avalanche sense that both tunes go for, like this is not even humans playing instruments anymore, just a mudslide of instruments playing themselves.

That said "You're Not The One" does have those amazing "Hey!" shouts at the start of the pre-chorus.

its the slight tension in the ynto pre chorus and how the words are so perfectly crammed that makes the release of the hook that much more explosive. love how the pre chorus before the last hook is just a slightly buried and more minor version of the hook so when it comes back in for the last time its scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs worthy.

well, this was quietly put out on cd in the uk.

despite all the build up there were no stacks of cds in the 'new release' stands in hmv/fopp.

found a couple of copies were hidden away in under the 'f' section.

oh, and they have placed a sticker over the cover art to save browsing blushes.

got a four star rating in mojo

I saw it went in at Number 73 in the album chart. Guessing a lot of people already had bought it on import.

she came to radio 1 to be interviewed many times leading up to the uk release date so i think she was trying to get a song on the playlist there. since that never worked out it probably didn't really reach an audience beyond people who had already imported or pirated it months before.

still can't believe territorial restrictions and lagging release dates are still things the music industry is ok with

Yeah, there is zero reason for release dates to be staggered internationally for any album.

It sort of spoils the happy-ending narrative that even after she finally delivers a great record (a) she fucks up her first UK show and (b) the label cocks up the release date.

Weird that Radio 1 aren't biting.

radio 1 fucking up is standard though, they've only just got round to playlisting "drunk in love". well DONE there

(tbh i don't think this album is really a mega-selling hit-spawning thing and i'm fine with that - it's the kind of album that has garnered her a relatively small fanbase but one that's heavily invested in her which is a great thing itself)

unless the plan is a soft release to appease the people who have waited.

then once the live band groove settles, she hits the festival season to build up the uk fanbase ?

we can but hope.

what happened at her first UK show?

this album is sending shivers all up my spine more and more with each spin.. YNTO, omanko, boys, nobody asked me etc.

was that at the ace hotel? a friend went and said the queuing was a bit of a joke, then there were some sound issues and she acted pretty bratty about it.

This album is so good and her shows so difficult to watch that it makes me think this brilliant record is a fluke.

i don't think her lack of live prowess necessarily has much to do with what she's able to create in the studio. the emphasis on performing live is a fact of the industry but it's become way disproportionate in assessing an artist.

The half a billion or so demos she's got floating around out there are good enough that I don't believe it's a fluke that this record is so good.

yup

first UK show? I saw her in London early last year. (It wasn't very notable.)

She could be a Millennial Milli Vanilli. A Milli Vanillennial, if you like. Millennial Vanillial? No, too much.

The low charting isn't surprising in the sense that, as others have mentioned, a lot of people would have downloaded the album or bought it on import last year. But then again it was only released in Australia in January and it at least scraped the top 40 there. Strange also that Sky charted at #73 when a band like the War On Drugs, for instance, who I would assume don't have a huge a UK profile, made it to #18.