Today, Ski Team (aka Lucie Lozinski) announces her new album Burnout/Boys, due January 23, with new single + video, “Thirst Trap For Diego.” For this 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. Listen to “Thirst Trap For Digeo” here and presave Burnout/Boys here.

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. Today’s 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.”

Watch “Thirst Trap For Diego” Directed by Matthias Brown (traceloops) here.

Lucie Lozinski started making music as a young child, writing songs and learning to harmonize as she learned to talk and write, thanks to growing up surrounded by music at home, in her father’s backyard studio, and at church. She sang with some big names before turning 10, backing legends like Tony Bennett and Queen Latifah, and sang in bands as a teenager before turning her focus to writing — studying creative writing, literature, translation, and linguistics in school and winning awards for her early prose.

She moved to California to pursue a career in technical writing, learning about computers and technology from scratch. While there, she also compiled her first set of songs and started releasing them to the world as Ski Team, including not one, but two basketball-fueled tracks, “Knicks Suck,” and “Thank You, Jalen Brunson.”

Returning to New York marked a new dedication to music, one that was interrupted by the Covid pandemic, but encouraged more solitude than ever before and increased her songwriting output. Burnout/Boys, Lucie’s debut, is a capsule of documentation: all of the recent years’ burning feels toward work and relationships, finally released in a physical space with physical people, breathing the same air, creating something together for the first time.