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Still Woozy's new single, "BS," is another homespun and heartfelt song from the technicolor mind of singer/songwriter Sven Gamsky. Out today via Still Woozy Productions/ Interscope Records, the track is a surreal sliver of pop centered around delightfully dazed vocals.  “BS” is available now at all digital retailers.

Like many of Still Woozy songs "BS" dives into Gamsky's psyche while also offering listeners a way out of their own worries. Yes, the lyrics are about "struggling with his brain," as he puts it, but they’re ultimately about bringing the best version of oneself to the people we love. The lush instrumental underscores that hope, shining warmth and light through the clouds of darker impulses. That sort of contrast is exactly what makes Still Woozy special, and it's been his aim ever since he started writing songs as a kid in Northern California's Bay Area. "I strive for this feeling of warmth to act as a buffer to some of those harsher feelings," he says. 

"BS" is Still Woozy's second single of 2020, arriving in the misty wake of April's "Window," another luxuriant cut tinged with longing. These followed Still Woozy's 2019 debut EP, ​Lately, which introduced the world to his emotional yet textured tracks. Blending acoustic sounds with delirious dabs of electronics, the EP showed off Gamsky's affection for deftly psychedelic arrangements ​— ​his songs melt and swirl like crayons on a sidewalk in the summer.  

That lighthearted, uncanny feeling is often echoed in the visuals Gamsky pairs with his songs, a trend that continues on the forthcoming video for "BS," in which, among other trippy images, Gamsky smashes a brain with a mallet while floating in the clouds. It's laidback and Lynchian in equal measure, which suits the beautiful contrasts at the center of his music. Watch the video for “BS” HERE. 

I wrote this song around the beginning of quarantine when the days were first getting hot on the east coast. It started with some Rhodes piano chords and house-inspired drums. Once I got the instruments to groove together, it began to feel like a summer breeze, so that’s how the lyrics came to me. The lyrics are all about the intensity and romanticization of summer. How hot and intense the weather gets and how extreme we want the moments or feelings of summer to be. From a young age, we always look to summer to be the relief after a long year, and a chance to have a lot of fun or spark a new relationship— although this year, we didn’t really get that. To me, it feels almost like summer didn’t really happen.

The lyrics that are about the heat intensity and weather are also about climate change, and how it feels like no one with real power is doing anything about the planet burning, and people who want to do something just have to watch it burn. I know that’s heavy, but I think it’s always in the back of many people’s minds. Even though it is a wavy song about summer on the surface level, with my lyrics, I always try to touch on something a little more crucial or at least make sure people can interpret the song in different ways.

“I’m never letting go of any part of my story ever again.”

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