Sky Ferreira: Home Alone

Sky Ferreira has this way of making isolation sound like the only place worth being. There’s something in her voice—the precision of it, the slight remove—that suggests someone perfectly comfortable with her own company, or maybe someone who’s learned that loneliness is cleaner than the alternative. Her records have always felt like they were made in a room by herself, even when they’re surrounded by producers and collaborators. That sense of distance, of being untouchable even when the songs are vulnerable, is what makes her interesting to me. She builds these intricate electronic structures and then sings through them like she’s still deciding whether to let you in.