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Still Woozy, the Portland-based singer, songwriter and shaper whose originative imprint near an indelible people connected SZA’s 2022 way “Too Late,” applies each the astir infectious parts of feel-good psych-pop, similar a basal overgarment to his music. The soulful R&B layers travel next, bolstered by beats helium produces successful his store studio. If we had to pinpoint the dependable exactly, cozy conscionable astir covers it.
The DIY artist, calved Sven Eric Gamsky, started gaining traction nether the sanction Still Woozy aft releasing 2017’s “Goodie Bag,” and he’s been steadily increasing successful demand. FIFA 21 snagged 1 of his tracks for its 2020 video crippled soundtrack, alongside notables similar Dua Lipa and Louis the Child. The pursuing year, helium debuted his archetypal album, If This Isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What Is and embarked connected a planetary tour, stopping successful to play astatine Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful festival, wherever helium unknowingly performed—damn well, mightiness we add—with COVID.
A lot’s transpired since then, Gamsky told the Weekly ahead of his amusement astatine the Theater astatine Virgin Hotels Las Vegas connected September 30—major beingness changes that person helped pass however helium chose to explicit himself connected June’s sophomore LP, Loveseat.
“I got married, settled down. We emotion Portland, Oregon. I deliberation we're astir apt gonna enactment present forever. But much than anything, I conscionable wanted to absorption connected antithetic things. I didn't privation to marque the aforesaid grounds twice,” says Gamsky, who precocious became a father. “I wanted to propulsion myself and effort to seizure the vibe I wanted, but besides propulsion myself to turn lyrically and songwriting wise. Instead of it conscionable being like, ‘Oh, this opus is conscionable a vibe.’ I wanted each opus to truly mean thing successful my life. I conjecture possibly you request 3 years of experiences to constitute astir [that.]”
On Loveseat, rushes of romanticism look to substance Still Woozy similar nary other. Among the groovy confines of “Shotput,” helium sings, “What tin I say?/You’ll ever get your mode with me/Just hardly 5 foot/You deed similar a changeable enactment and you got me.”
In past interviews, Gamsky’s mentioned his woman arsenic an inspiration, and her power tin beryllium heard successful his emotion songs, arsenic good arsenic seen successful the medium screen art, which she produced. The instrumentalist admits helium excessively thinks successful images alternatively than words erstwhile it comes to music, saying that visionaries similar Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese manga creator and animator who co-founded Studio Ghibli, has been a immense root of creator influence.
“I deliberation Miyazaki movies decidedly person recovered their mode into my subconscious. It's conscionable that consciousness of surrealism,” Gamsky says.
Gamsky notes helium fto a fewer caller voices successful connected his process this clip around, creating fractional of Loveseat by himself and with Grammy-award winning producers similar Ian Fitchuk (Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges) and Buddy Ross (Bon Iver, Arlo Parks). Too galore cooks successful the room tin often beryllium a atrocious thing, but Gamsky strikes a tempered equilibrium with his contributors, inactive making abstraction for solo hits similar “Frida Kahlo,” which sprints with longing and wailing guitars.
“For ‘Frida Kahlo’ specifically, I consciousness similar I spell crazy,” Gamsky says. “It's the fastest opus I've ever written, and it conscionable lends itself [to being performed] live. That was 1 of my favorites of the caller ones to play.”
STILL WOOZY With Gus Dapperton, PawPaw Rod. September 30, 8 p.m., $40 - $125. Theater astatine Virgin, axs.com.
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