Ski Team is New Jersey-based Lucie Lozinski with a rotating cast of collaborators including friends and her brother Ian Lozinski. Ski Team’s sound ranges from melancholy bedroom acoustic to melancholy Americana with electronic influence, but there’s a sense of humor and existentialism that stays strong across styles. She looks up to The New Pornographers, LCD Soundsystem, Courtney Barnett, Britney Spears, and Outkast. Currently obsessed with Clairo and the new Run the Jewels.
I write about my relationships with people and places. 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. I always feel caught between being too young to do something and too old to start, and my music reflects that cycle of yearning that people feel in all parts of life: when to quit a job, when to move, when to get married, when to give up?
My parents are both musicians. They had me singing and shaking an egg on stage with their bands when I was like four, and I kept singing and playing wherever I could throught my childhood, probably peaking at the opening ceremony of the U.S. Open—a crowd of 45,000 when I was eight. My biggest rebellion against my fam was going to women’s college and getting a desk job. I’ve worked in the engineering org at tech companies like Uber and Snapchat for most of my twenties, spending all my time with geeks and computers. I lived alone in San Francisco and used the isolation and distance to hone my songwriting. For what it’s worth, San Francisco still feels like home, and I’ll split my time between there and here as soon as the travel restricts lift. It’s a sad, beautiful place.
