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.

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Taking a leave of absence form her career as an award-winning writer to make the forthcoming album, Ski Team set out to balance high agency with acceptance and observation; you can’t fix everything, and most things fall apart, and there’s an unknown balance to taking action and letting life crumble in due course; making room for the unknown.

A lot of Burnout/Boys is about work — uncertainty about the value of what’s created; a desire to be a human even while optimizing for efficiency and good experiences. New single ‘Thirst Trap For Digeo’ leans into the other half of the subject matter: boys. “you need some meaning of your own, babe,” the chorus proclaims in this kind of angry, exhausted way, before the bass-heavy breakdown zig zags through a proverbial set of 70s tube-y wood-paneled speakers. It’s an irresistible blend of sonics in the class of Mitski’s ‘Nobody’ with the lusty, foggy sheen of Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Road Head;’ Lozinski’s lyricism stands at the forefront, disarming and wry.

Of the video directed by Matthias Brown (traceloops), Ski Team says, “I really like how you can see the process of what he’s doing in the end result. He’s backlighting the cut paper as well to create shadows and make the figures more dramatic.

“One funny thing of the making of this is that I tried to get him to model the thirst trap characters after Martha Stewart, and he did not want to do that for reasons I understand, and we’ve had a month-long polite debate about whether to nod to Martha in this video. (I’ve also DMed Martha to ask if she can bless this direction to unblock us, which of course she has not replied to.) Low-key one of my favorite work arguments of all time. But I am folding and we’re not gonna include Martha Stewart’s likeness.”

Burnout/Boys:

1. Gentle
2. Thirst Trap For Diego
3. Gilroy
4. Landslide
5. Plan A
6. Killer
7. New BF
8. Santa
9. Music For My Family
10. The Room
11. Up The Wall

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Her new single ‘Me’ is an experimental downtempo indie pop track. The artist teamed up with producer Daniel Knowles (Sharon Van Etten, Cigarettes After Sex), and her own brother Ian Lozinski, as well as saxaphone player Matt Podell, who she met on hinge (the two decided to create music together instead of date) to create the intoxicating musical offering.

She shares, “The song is about the struggle of adjusting someone’s role in your life, or your own role to them, and giving up control in that process. I guess it’s about realizing if you have to assign roles, maybe it’s not as special as you think. And like challenging this idea of roles being the whole of someone’s identity. It’s scary to not know who’s on your roster, or who you are without a particular person/job/trait/whatever, and just go forth into life’s abyss as a human, but it’s often better for everyone involved to get on with it. Pick yourself up, focus on yourself, and let everything and everyone else kind of settle around you.”

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