Still Woozy
Recommended
The Oakland artist otherwise known as Sven Gamsky doesn't have a huge amount of recorded material under his Still Woozy alias—the fresh 2019 Lately EP and several stand-alone singles—but what's available is bright, breezy, languid anti-pop crafted in his garage with a combination of electronics (synths, drum pads) and organic instrumentation (guitar, bass, piano). Gamsky has a hushed cooing vocal that can reach falsetto notes while maintaining its lovely sighing quality in songs like the swishing and skidding bossa-nova-influenced "Ipanema" (featuring Omar Apollo and Elujay), the sumptuous amorousness of "Habit," or the easy, bouncy of Montreal–evocative "Lava."
by Leilani Polk