Sky Ferreira - "Leash" + General Discussion

[P'NutButter]

I love it so much.

 

[Up Down Suite]

Buzzing, what a feeling to listen to new music from Sky. Can't wait to see her at Primavera!

 

[Andy French]

I mean this sounds exactly like the new Hatchie album right?

I actually don't think it does all that much. Hatchie's album is a lot brighter and less cluttered (that sounds like a negative assessment of Don't Forget but I promise it's not). The melodies are also classic Sky through and through to me.

(Having said that I would absolutely welcome a collab.)

 

[AshtrayHeart]

Muna and Sky on the same day though, they’ve literally been on rotation with each other since 11pm last night.

 

[drewsky]

Now that you say it, I can hear Hatchie.

Am I right in thinking this song has been sat on for years? I guess it’d only be a matter of time until someone beat her to it, despite the suggested label issues.
Good to have Sky back though with a banger, I just hope we don’t go back to radio silence.

I *think the initial demo of Don't Forget is from 2016.

 

[Runawaywithme]

I don't think it's fair to say she's just been sitting on these songs doing nothing for years. Yes, the demo may date back to 2016 but she's been funding sessions and changing production and mixing and mastering up until literally two months ago. She definitely takes her music seriously.

 

[Nunya B]

Stereogum's post said the final version of Don't Forget was only recorded in 2020 so if that's true, she must have gone through a few versions before that.

Ferreira co-wrote “Don’t Forget” with Elbrecht, who also produced it, and Tamaryn. It was recorded in 2020 at Capitol’s Studio B in LA and mixed this year in Denver.

 

[AshtrayHeart]

I don't think it's fair to say she's just been sitting on these songs doing nothing for years. Yes, the demo may date back to 2016 but she's been funding sessions and changing production and mixing and mastering up until literally two months ago. She definitely takes her music seriously.

To be fair a lot of artists have been sitting on new music because of Covid, so it’s not exclusively Sky, my favourite bands new album was ready to go at the beginning of 2020 and it’s only just been released. And it’s completely understandable because they want to be able to tour the album etc.
Plus we all know Sky has had issues with her label etc, I was just curious when this song first came about.

 

[Heartthrob]

Stereogum's post said the final version of Don't Forget was only recorded in 2020 so if that's true, she must have gone through a few versions before that.

Dd, I was about to post this. I’d love to know why she rerecorded the whole thing in 2020 since it sounded like it was finished and ready to go around the time of Downhill Lullaby’s release.

 

[Andy French]

Didn't she say in her most recent Instagram post about Don't Forget that it went through a ton of different iterations?

(I'm also taking it as a positive sign that she explicitly said the words "the album is real" in the same post.)

 

[DownhillRacer]

This is fantastic. The first listen was very much “that can’t be the chorus?” but on subsequent listens the whole song just clicks. Her vocal is out of this world and the production is so crunchy and deliciously messy in a nicely orchestrated way. The way everything builds and expands at 2:16 - so good. Also it leaves you wanting more in a clever way.

This makes me want to go and burn down someone's house. She's done it.

Mood.

 

[Lapras]

Interview!

https://www.vulture.com/article/sky-ferreira-interview-dont-forget-masochism-delays.html

I don’t know if you noticed by now, but I’m very picky.

I fucking love her.

 

[Artemisia]

The distorted guitar/synth/whatever sound during the verses is crazyyyy

 

[Heartthrob]

Pitchfork didn’t care for the song, which is a little surprising but also not, considering the score they gave Hatchie a few weeks ago

“Don’t Forget” Is Sky Ferreira’s Bland Return
After teasing us three years ago with “Downhill Lullaby,” Sky Ferreira has finally returned with “Don’t Forget,” the second single from her upcoming, much-delayed album Masochism. Unfortunately, the song is pretty bland. Skimming the surface of her rock-tinged roots, the track leans into trendy ’80s-revival production and Tumblr-cliche lyricism about “sick dreams” and being a “real bad girl.” But even with its throbbing bassline, glowing synths, and relentless My Bloody Valentine-esque drums, “Don’t Forget” is a little too reminiscent of Ferreira’s now nine-year-old debut Night Time, My Time; if anything, it feels like a Night Time cutting-room floor scrap, lifelessly dolled up and postured as if for a Weekend at Sky’s. “Don’t Forget” is produced by Jorge Elbrecht and mastered by Heba Kadry, who try to ratchet up the synth pop-inflected grunginess of her iconic debut into a new wave headbanger. However, they are thwarted in this task by vague lyrics that shut the door on the honest, breathless fury that made Ferreira’s debut such a magnetic listen. Despite its title, the song is pretty unmemorable.

 

[superultra]

Pitchfork back to pissing me off after aptly dragging Jack Harlow, it seems.

 

[Jonathan27]

This is transcendent, it feels like a homecoming but shaded in vengeance.

There's something so ominous about "I don't forgive" with that industrial guitar (?) cutting underneath it. It's been said but she really does not miss.

 

[1991]

@SuePark if I see you in the streets it's over.

 

[digitalkaiser]

I already feel like this song perfectly encapsulates my musical tastes, what a fucking home run. I want to live in this song.

 

[matthew.]

This gorgeous song is gorgeous. End.

 

[drewsky]

Sue Park also poorly reviewed the new Uffie album. She won't be descending.