Today, 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. Listen to “New BF” here and presave Burnout/Boys here.

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.

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 – from today’s grungy “New BF,” which calls to mind Veruca Salt, to previous single “Thirst Trap for Diego,” which zig zags through a proverbial set of 70s tube-y wood-paneled speakers with the lusty, foggy sheen of Japanese Breakfast’s “Road Head” – 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.