Album Review: Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time

She’s only 21, but Sky Ferreira finally arrives with her much-delayed debut album, ‘Night Time, My Time’ – a collection of grungy Pop songs retelling the personal tales of ordinary issues like love, heartbreak and identity.

Since arriving on the scene, Ferreira has not exactly been the most conservative – she was recently charged with possession of ecstasy – and the cover of her album expresses this even further. Whether to shock audiences or symbolise how she’s laid herself bare throughout the album, it certainly makes you sit up, look and listen.

‘Night Time, My Time’ sees Ferreira experimenting with a Grunge-worship sound that says goodbye to the Dev Hynes’ production of her last single “Everything Is Embarrassing”, which was more of a blippy Pop song. In its place we see Sky Ferreira pushing her soft, raspy vocals towards a more powerful live experience and drawing her attitude from past female Pop icons (think Debbie Harry). The production, thanks to Grammy-winning producer Ariel Rechtshaid, effortlessly fuses ’80s motifs of vocal hooks, video game samples and tinkering synth melodies (‘Love in Stereo’, ‘I Blame Myself’).

‘Nobody Asked Me’ sees Ferreira demonstrate her confidence as a singer, competing with grainy and distorted guitar samples. The track ’24 Hours’ is a beautiful ’80s Disco party-starter that could give 1984 Madonna a run for her money and sees Ferreira croon over a heavy-synth instrumental.

‘Night Time, My Time’ enhances her immaculate style and versatility with Electro-Pop dreamwaves and unadulterated harmonies and lyrics. The record definitely takes the listener on a departure from the Pop roots Ferreira’s known for towards a more natural, coarse sound. She is the anti-Pop star that is a Pop star. Pop music needs more ground-breaking stars like this.