SKY FERREIRA

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.

Can't get over how brilliant this album is. "I Blame Myself" is so amazingly moving, and most of the second half sounds like the brilliant album Kim Wilde never made. Could see her flopping with tne next record however, as I'm not sure how far this aesthetic can go before it becomes tired.

War on Drugs have surely got the Mojo/Uncut backing and readers of those mags are more likely to pay for CDs/legal downloads, no?

Good on you for the Kim Wilde reference! I thought the same thing upon hearing "I Will".

Can't get over how brilliant this album is. "I Blame Myself" is so amazingly moving, and most of the second half sounds like the brilliant album Kim Wilde never made.
― JohnSock

Agree that this album is brillinat but have to add that Kim Wilde's first two albums are amazing. Her debut is one of my favourite albums of all time.

http://www.ssense.com/video/sky-ferreira-i-blame-myself-video-ssense/

That's...peculiar.

horrible video

this is unfortunate

I think it's great!

Yay for privilege.

i had a bad feeling that this video would be thinkpiece-bait

she's just jumping on the pop singer using questionable black stereotypes = profit gravy train. I guess it's been a successful tactic lately...

what a disappointment… great song ruined by total idiots

it isn't really that much more thinkpiecey than, say, "lovegame"

Let the floodgates open: http://flavorwire.com/452072/sky-ferreiras-i-blame-myself-video-subverts-the-gender-dynamics-of-gang-culture

BREAKING: Sky Ferreira's video subverts the gender dynamics of gang culture, still pretty racist

Film at 11

God, this video is fucking horrible! I cannot believe no one at any point was just like "omg sky STOP TOUCHING YOUR HAIR"

like she has this really affected performative thing going on but it is like so sexy-looking and serious and not at all playful or charismatic, it's like this charade of model-posing but not really actual model-posing

yes, the hair touching is definitely what somebody needed to call a time-out on