SKY FERREIRA

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

nothing is complete original, hasn't she read harold bloom?

Great song. Love that she worked with Dean Hurley on this (whose Anthology Resource was quietly the best musical thing that came out of the Twin Peaks reboot).

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.”

lmao iconic

― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:23 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everybody does this now lol i thought it was weird how the article fixated on it

havent listened yet but i think sky brings up 'twin peaks' enough that the LDR comparison is warranted

She was literally on Twin Peaks and has performed in concert with David Lynch.

she was great on twin peaks!

second fave one-off roadhouse performance after charlyne yi

song is good :)

i like this song... i think it's a good look for her & the build up really pays off for me. from what i understand she has poppier stuff too

lmfao at the "bitter sweet symphony" thing. yeah i couldn't hear it at all

Dramatic strings 🙄 people are so fucking stupid

it reminds me of something specific (def not that) but i cant place it

Can't get over how awesome this song is, hasn't sunk in yet that this album a) is coming out, and b) Probably won't suck. Jordan's news is very good

loved the very start but never like anything with half-time drums. bass guitar immediately made me think 4AD too. looking forward to listening many more times.

hasn't sunk in yet that this album a) is coming out

I wouldn't hold my breath on that tbh

it has to be on the way. even the most clueless at her label must understand that she's more about full-length projects and is unlikely to score a hit single. i doubt they'd let her release anything unless it was to set up an album release.

lmfao at the "bitter sweet symphony" thing. yeah i couldn't hear it at all

― dyl, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:27 (thirteen hours ago) Permalink

Dramatic strings 🙄 people are so fucking stupid

― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:44 (thirteen hours ago) Permalink

Both have a 4/4 time chord progression with strings? ...and that's where the similarities end. I can see where you can sort of make a connection if you are kind of tone deaf.

yeah there's no musical similarity at all

but just... i just want this album to come out 😔

i'm hearing cat power / tindersticks. which is alright.

reminds me a little bit of pulp coming back with (the song) "this is hardcore".