Month: January 2019

Still Woozy

Still Woozy performed a sold out show at the Biltmore last Friday and it was super good.

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Still Woozy (aka Sven Gambsky) hails from Oakland Cali, and makes jazzy, dreamy pop, apparently entirely on his laptop in his garage.

He’s thought to be a part of the “bedroom pop” movement aka DIY music (self-composed, produced, released, etc).

Gambsky started Still Woozy just over a year ago, and hasn’t yet released an album or EP, just 7 singles as well as 2 music videos which are…pretty funny to watch. Really cool track art though. 

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His first ever show as Still Woozy was around a year ago, which makes it that much crazier how he’s been able to sell out most of his hefty North American Tour, and land a slot at Coachella this year.

It all makes sense if you listen to his music. It’s unique, globally appreciated, and catchy af.

About the show itself: Still Woozy is technically just composed of one man, although on Friday he was accompanied by two band mates who played the drums and guitar. They danced A LOT and got the crowd amped while Gabsky mainly stuck to singing, guitar, and his Macbook.

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He and his pals were pretty entertaining to watch. Having a good time just dancing and belting it out. Considering their “bedroom pop” categorization, it was surprisingly more “real” than I was expecting. Not just Sven and his laptop. All the jams sounded pretty similar: dreamy, funky and very chill…and it was damn good! The show was short but sweet.  Pretty much his 7 songs on Spotify, shuffled, plus a couple unreleased tracks he graced us with.

Have a listen. He’s on the up for sure. Absolutely deservedly.

Photos: Michaela D-W