Lush + Stunning Harmonic EP from American Songwriter Acclaimed Artist

the new EP Islands from Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Ski Team. The EP includes a stunning new layered song and hymn "Islands" which is the counterpart to the recently released indie pop single "Me". She shares, "I wrote "Islands" while producing "Me"—the bass sounded like crickets, and I started looping it and singing over it. The improvised melody and harmony had something so sweet and somber about it. Then we just rapid fire layered harmonies, all unplanned, just whatever I felt like singing. I think that improvised spirit of listening and just doing what feels right—whatever comes out—is what makes this song so special. There was very little planning and designing it. I just sang a song from the soul into the mic, and you can feel that." 

Ski Team collaborated with producer Daniel Knowles (Sharon Van Etten, Cigarettes After Sex) on the new single. The artist has received praise from the likes of American Songwriter, Atwood Magazine and more

Ski Team is the solo moniker of Lucie Lozinski, an independent songwriter, singer, producer, and guitarist who’s known for her yearning lyrics, crystalline voice, and gritty instrumentation. American Songwriter has described her music as “… a quasi-Americana sound, combining traditional folk and rock elements with undeniably modern soundscapes.”

Originally from New Jersey, Lozinski infuses everything with a bit of her roots. “That sounds like New Jersey,” says Lozinski about the anthemic distorted guitar chorus on her single “Don’t Give Up (Yet)” out now. She writes vulnerably about her relationships with people and places. “I move a lot,” she says. “My songs usually come from being stuck somewhere—in a rut with a friend, with a boyfriend repeating the same fights, in a city that all my friends have left.”

The daughter of musicians, Lozinski grew up with a recording studio in her backyard and ample opportunities to perform, including the U.S. Open international tennis championship when she was just eight years old. She’s sung with icons like Tony Bennett and Queen Latifa as well as hometown friends Kevin Kuh (of Pool Cosby), Sam Ryan, and her brother’s band Snacks Chapman. Although Lozinski has been an unlisted vocalist on albums since her childhood, it wasn’t until she met producer Bobby Renz in San Francisco in 2019 that she readied her own music for release. The pair recorded Ski Team’s latest singles at Different Fur Records in the Mission District, which also provided the single’s cover art. “I took that picture of the dog in the car in the Mission,” explained Lozinski. “It’s such a vibe and conveys all I could ever hope to communicate about my own personality.” 

After recording a series of demos in her apartment and releasing on Soundcloud, Lozinski caught the attention of LA-based producers Scott Seiver (who’s produced for the likes of Pete Yorne, Aimee Mann, and Ted Leo) and Timothy Young. In 2019 and 2020, the trio recorded singles that break through Ski Team’s bedroom acoustic intimacy into full-blown pop, receiving critical acclaim.

Her track "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." 

Ski Team's latest song "Islands" is a hymn and was written as a counterpart to "Me" (very much a pop song) to ground it. She shares, "The song "Me" is so shiny and layered with effects. This one is raw and organic—both in its sound and in the way it was produced—but lives in the same universe. I wrote "Islands" while producing Me—the bass sounded like crickets, and I started looping it and singing over it. The improvised melody and harmony had something so sweet and somber about it. Then we just rapid fire layered harmonies, all unplanned, just whatever I felt like singing. I think that improvised spirit of listening and just doing what feels right—whatever comes out—is what makes this song so special. There was very little planning and designing it. I just sang a song from the soul into the mic, and you can feel that." 

Both songs are off of Ski Team's new EP Islands which is an important exercise in not overthinking.

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