SKY FERREIRA

downhill lullaby is amazing (havent listened to this yet just needed to intervene)

ok I listened to the new one, also great

downhill lullaby makes me think of bobbie gentry, 100/10

ooh "Don't Forget" works

Pitchfork review swing and a miss

it's a good song, reminds me of michael damian's version of "rock on" at times lol

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.

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

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

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).

it's not a big stylistic shift from the album but the lack of hooks is

What “lack of hooks” lol

revisiting her old stuff, "lost in my bedroom" is still my favorite song of all time

"heavy metal heart" is the best sleigh bells song ever

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

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

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)

OTM x1000. Very close to album of the decade for me

Japanese xmas might finally come this year

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

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

Those posts are hilarious because to me this is such a brad record.

Omanko is one of the most outrageous things ever to appear on a mainstream pop album? Really impressed

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

Serious Madonna vibes in that latest track.

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"

Let’s calm down guys. We can be friends with NTMT and Everything is Embarassing.

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!

the best song on the ghost ep is "lost in my bedroom"

"lost in the bedroom" rules

Thanks to this thread revive I searched for a second-hand CD of NTMT. I thought the copy at my local record store was outrageously priced at NZ$12.95 but then checked Discogs... Oh my... Immediately added to my cart.

The vinyl prices are next level. Discogs at its best.

Took me a decade to be aware of it, but this album is pretty cool. Wish I had been aware back then, 25 year old me would’ve loved it.

fascinated by 'moka and imago discover iconic & canonical ilx artists theyve ignored extensive threads on for years'

jk its not that fascinating

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

I mean her follow-up album is allegedly coming out finally sometime this year, so the revive was appropriate either way.

is there a purpose for these comments or do you just enjoy being snarky at the idea of other posters enjoying something for the first time?

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, August 29, 2022 12:38 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

idk, theres like pages of ppl talking about why they like a thing and imago stumbles in like "I deem this great, now that its entered my line of sight" a decade later on multiple threads...its kind of grating & self important

setting aside whatever beef you have with imago, it just makes this place seem less inviting when we're shitting on people for being enthusiastic about a thing in the appropriate thread just because it's arbitrarily deemed the wrong time. it's easy enough to just ignore if it isn't pleasing to you.

Is it really that different if I had posted “this is a cool album” 10 years ago? By that metric every time anyone on ilm has expressed excitement or approval of an album they’re being grating and self-important.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

Xpost: yes, but she has that chameleonic model thing where depending the era and the photoshoot she looks like different people. I’ve seen photos of her where she also reminds me of Rihanna.

Also reminds me of Katherine Langford in some photos.

Maybe even like Robert Pattinson lol

But yeah Debbie Harry is the one that comes to mind in overall looks and style.

lmao, deeply honoured Tim!

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

idk, it really does put to the test the saying, "better late than never".

It kind of wouldn’t be ILM at this point if we didn’t have imago arriving on various threads at least once a year after a big poll to bestow his canonical blessings like an off-planet Soto who’s been thawed out from cryogenic deep freeze.

― Tim F

I don't wear the right robes for bestowing those blessings.

Is it me, or does she look like the love child of Debbie Harry and Kristen Stewart?

Not just you — this is from the Guardian piece linked above: "In Spain, her extremely low-energy stage presence conjured a vision of Kristen Stewart playing Debbie Harry."

That article also makes it sound like she's still not doing great. If she does actually release the album, I hope she's in a mental/physical state to handle all the stress around it.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnZy8tqA0ts/

unreleased snippet, she's mad at her label not letting her put anything out

Why won't Capitol just drop her? I can't think of anyone who's been bound by a contract as long as she's been while the label sits on almost everything she records. 99% of the time they just shelve material and say bye.

saw her in nyc last night (she said it was her first time playing here in at least 8 years) and she was completely amazing