The slopes aren’t steep in our neighborhood yet were slippery as all get-out yesterday morning thanks to the inch-or-less of snow stuck to the streets. There’s a thin line between love and hate, of course—and, often, icy patches between the two. To that end, on a walk to our mail center, I spotted tire tracks leading off the road and skid marks on the snow-covered grass.
Not that it matters. “Islands,” the latest single from Ski Team—aka onetime Jersey girl Lucie Lozinski—is sure to melt the frozen tundra of one’s heart. She wrote it in the studio while recording her previous single, the equally fascinating downtempo tune “Me,” with producer Daniel Knowles, who’s worked with Sharon Van Etten, Cigarettes After Sex and Rosalie James, among others. The press release quotes Ski Team as explaining, “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.”
It sounds like a hypnotic chorale of sirens whose stirring song carries warmth forth from the deep sea via waves lapping and crashing to shore. Quite cool.
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