{"id":2442206,"date":"2019-03-27T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=813918"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:00:21","slug":"hear-sky-ferreiras-first-original-song-in-six-years-downhill-lullaby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-sky-ferreiras-first-original-song-in-six-years-downhill-lullaby\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sky Ferreira\u2019s First Original Song in Six Years, \u2018Downhill Lullaby\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/shutterstock_5848576d.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sky-ferreira\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sky-ferreira\" data-tag=\"sky-ferreira\">Sky Ferreira<\/a> has unveiled her brooding new song, \u201cDownhill Lullaby,\u201d marking her first original solo music since 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The song finds Ferreira crafting an aptly nightmarish soundscape out of wobbling bass, trudging drums and the sinister swoop of strings, which notably interpolate the Verve\u2019s \u201cBitter Sweet Symphony.\u201d Ferreira keeps her voice on a razor\u2019s edge, shaping it into a sweet, lulling croon one moment before bringing it down to a low whisper with a menacing bite the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDownhill Lullaby\u201d is expected to appear on Ferreira\u2019s new album, <em>Masochism<\/em>, though a release date has yet to be announced. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/cover-story\/sky-ferreira-masochism-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Pitchfork<\/a>, Ferreira compared making \u201cDownhill Lullaby\u201d to the chaos Mickey Mouse brings about in \u201cThe Sorcerer\u2019s Apprentice\u201d from <em>Fantasia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou know how all the brooms are making a gigantic mess and the water starts rising and rising and rising and rising?\u201d she said. \u201cIt was sort of like that: Magical, but at the same time, \u2018What is going on?\u2019 And then cleaning it all up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Masochism<\/em> follows Ferreira\u2019s 2013 debut album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/night-time-my-time-99885\/\"><em>Night Time, My Time<\/em><\/a>. While she has not released any original solo material since then, she\u2019s recently collaborated with artists like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/iceage-recruit-sky-ferreira-for-pain-killer-detail-new-album-beyondless-198290\/\">Iceage<\/a>, Ssion and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-jesus-and-mary-chain-sky-ferreira-play-the-two-of-us-on-colbert-127338\/\">Jesus and Mary Chain<\/a>. She also covered the Commodores\u2019 \u201cEasy\u201d for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/queen-beck-beach-boys-blur-join-expansive-baby-driver-soundtrack-194679\/\"><em>Baby Driver<\/em> soundtrack<\/a> (she appeared in that movie as well), and shared a rendition of \u2018Til Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xt-EDG08Elw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cVoices Carry\u201d<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sky-ferreira-downhill-lullaby-813918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Ferreira has unveiled her brooding new song, \u201cDownhill Lullaby,\u201d marking her first original solo music since 2013. The song finds Ferreira crafting an aptly nightmarish soundscape out of wobbling bass, trudging drums and the sinister swoop of strings, which notably interpolate the Verve\u2019s \u201cBitter Sweet Symphony.\u201d Ferreira keeps her voice on a razor\u2019s edge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 02:51:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}