Today, Ski Team, aka Lucie Lozinski, shares “Music For My Family” from her forthcoming album Burnout/Boys, due Jan 23rd. 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. Shortly after the album’s release, she’ll partner with KCRW for a live show in LA Jan 30th, and a NYC release show in February, more info below. Listen to “Music For My Family” here and presave Burnout/Boys here.

Ski Team explains, “Music For My Family” is “about family and destiny, or fate, or dreams or something. I’ve been rewatching The Fast and the Furious movies, which might be related… it’s a song for my family, and the honesty and dedication that go with dreaming about something.”

Place “Music For My Family” with recent single “Santa,” which Atwood Magazine called, “a quietly devastating meditation on restraint, desire, and the strange mercy of being held back,” next to “New BF,” which is more in line with Splendora or Veruca Salt, and then the tube-y 70s disco sound on “Thirst Trap For Digeo,” and you get a polychromatic yet consistent record in Burnout/Boys.

With exacting tact, Ski Team tackles emotional responsibility, the strength and trust in one’s self it takes to start over, and the fear, failings, and forward motion of early adulthood. 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. There’s a curious duality to her voice that mirrors this sentiment. Favoring nuance over resolve, occasional lyric ambiguity causes tension against scalpel-like precision of her vocal acuity.

A lot of Burnout/Boys is about the uncertainty surrounding the value of what’s created; a desire to be a human even while optimizing for efficiency and good experiences in both work and romance. The writing is what keeps Burnout/Boys whole. Sonically diverse, we get the full spectrum of clever front women, drawing you near with a slight oddity and alluring precision.

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.”

Now back in New York, Lozinski has marked a new dedication to music. 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, observation, and making room for the unknown.