Ski Team (aka Lucie Lozinski) shares ‘New BF’ – a lo-fi, wry contemplation of betrothal – from her forthcoming album Burnout/Boys, due January 23. For this new music, she teamed up with producer Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Westerman, Buck Meek, & many more) and Josh Bonati (Wild Nothing, Sufjan Stevens, Mac DeMarco) for mastering.

Dripping with a Splendora-like grunge tint (the background vocals were recorded at home; Lozinski had to unplug her refrigerator as to not lay on the buzz too thickly), ‘New BF’ exemplifies the core of Ski Team’s approach to an emotional gut-punch. There’s nothing gushing about Ski Team’s writing, but the witty, incisive humor of it gets to the depth of it from another angle; she’s an expounder, and a bit of a comedian, but not a diarist.

Borne from a bachelorette party where the bridesmaids’ measure of happiness and progress seem to be directly attached to their relationships, ‘New BF’ is an oppositionally upbeat notation on feeling trapped, isolated, and evasive, even though she wants to be included in that perceived complacency they’re all feeling. “I’ve always thought it’s a weird thing, saying ‘congrats’ when people get engaged—as though it’s an end, or an achievement,” Lozinski says. There’s a curious duality to her voice that mirrors this sentiment: the scalpel-like precision at every acrobatic turn is at times deceptively dainty, and will slice you when you least expect it; yet it’s always full-bodied, as if it’s sopped up every bit of emotional overflow and carries it with her.