The last time Sky Ferreira toured Australia in 2014, the cult musician, actor and model was just 21 and riding high on the critical success of her acclaimed debut Night Time, My Time , an album so perfectly realised it still ranks among the great testaments of Millennial pop. Its anthems, including You’re Not the One and I Blame Myself , somehow merged the churning noise and depressive angst of Suicide, Jesus and Mary Chain and ’80s post-punk with expressive, radio-friendly vocal hooks to such an extent that it broke into Australia’s top 40, while Ferreira’s grungy aesthetic, louche demeanour and singular vision pointed to an icon in the making – a pop star for the Tumblr generation. Sky Ferreira: The cult pop enigma returns to Australian stages for Vivid Live in Sydney and Rising in Melbourne.
Credit: Patrik Sanberg Which is why it’s confounding that, a decade on, we’re still awaiting its follow-up. “Yeah, it definitely did not play out the way I planned on it,” Ferreira says with a deadpan laugh over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. She even recalls discussing Masochism – her now-mythical, long-promised, forever-delayed second album – with local reporters at the time, confident it was coming within the year.
“But I guess that’s life, right? It’s the big thing looming over me in my life,” she says of the album, and the staggered output that’s led to her reputation as a “modern pop enigma”. “Hopefully it’ll be worth it when it co.
