What were you doing when you were 10? I was trying to sell the basketball jerseys my parents bought me back to them under the guise of “making a store.” The plan? Keep my jerseys and the money. Lucie Lozinski, who makes music under the name Ski Team, was doing...other things. Specifically, serving as a backing vocalist for Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah. While Lozinski still sings, she does so in a very different way these days. Ski Team is an indie rock–leaning project with elements of ’70s jazz, AM pop, and chamber folk tossed in for good measure. On the first Ski Team LP, Burnout/Boys, Lozinski recruited Phil Weinrobe on production, who lends the album a tactile, warm feel.
In support of the new album, Lozinski performed a “FLOOD Session” for us, picking “Plan A” and “New BF” from the album to perform at Harbor Studios in Red Hook. Regarding the tone of the former song, she shared: “I wrote ‘Plan A’ when I realized a longstanding cornerstone of my life, something I was building around and banking on, was not going to pan out the way I’d hoped... At the moment of writing ‘Plan A,’ I realized floating down one particular stream was leading to a pretty sad experience, and it was never going to resolve itself. In cases like that, you have to just get out of the river and go in a different direction, even if you don't know anything else. The big uncertainty and feeling of being a confused and aimless newborn in your own life. That's what growing feels like sometimes.”
She also spoke about “New BF,” adding that that track “is mostly about feeling trapped and uncomfortable and itchy and straightjacketed. When you're in a relationship with someone you slowly, slowly, then very suddenly (!) realize you're not happy with, and the clock starts ticking louder all of a sudden, and you need to get out of there. But it's also about how isolating it can feel when you're with a bunch of happy people, all coupled up, and you're this alien creature among them who isn't moving in with their partner and buying a dog. I wrote it when I was feeling uncomfortable on both sides—at home and with friends—looking for something to connect to more deeply.”
Check out Ski Team’s full “FLOOD Sessions” video below.
