You've heard his song 'Lava' on The Current, now get acquainted with Sven Gamsky, the young Bay area musician who is winning over fans coast-to-coast as Still Woozy with his intimate, atmospheric pop music.

Can you describe Still Woozy in three words?

Three words that describe me? Or three words that describe the music? The first is "garage" 'cause everything started in my garage. I didn't have the space, I didn't have all that much money, so I was just like 'I'm going to do it in my garage.' Second word... I think, like, "soundscapes." When I think about my mixes, I think about, like, the whole spread. I think of like right and left - there's a whole sphere you know, around your head where music can occupy, and I want you to feel like you're living inside the song, you know? Because when I'm mixing it, that's how I'm trying to get it to be. I'm trying to make this soundscape just as full and as vibrant as possible. I guess the third word has to be Ami, which is my partner. She's the person who's influenced all the music, and without her, none of it would exist. So that's gotta be one of the things.

Do you think "intimate is an accurate description of your sound?

I think that's completely accurate. Like, even in the mixes, I want the voice to sound intimate, like, up and close. I can appreciate voices that are mixed far back, like someone is shouting at you down the hall, but it also feels like it's harder to connect with the music when the voice is farther back in the distance. Just from an emotional standpoint, I feel like the voice being forward and having it come from an emotional place makes it intimate, and I don't want to shy away from that because, like recording, it's an intimate process and I feel like when you're listening to it, there should be like a barrier between the feeling that you have when you created it and the feeling you have when you listen to it.

How does it feel to be playing sold-out shows?

I love it so much. It's so fun. It's just like, I feel like the bigger the crowds, the more energy people bring and that's just like, uh, when we perform and there's all these people that are just excited and want to have fun, it just facilitates that so much more. We're kind of like, we're always just changing it up and running around and my friend Tani and my friend Skinny Pete, he's the drummer, you'll see him., Pete plays the drums and then dances. And then Tani switches off with me because I play the bass sometimes, I play the guitar sometimes, sometimes I just sing. I'm usually so dead at the end of the show 'cause I'm just running and jumping and just dancing the whole time and singing, it's just like, I don't know. I think I"m getting in better shape and then every night, I'm just like... done at the end. I think I should be good now and then I show up and I'm like, 'wait, I need to work out.' I need to get on the treadmill or something.

What has it been like to build a following on the internet?

The internet is a crazy place. It is so vast. Hugely vast. There are parts of it that can feel so genuine and real, and there's also a lot of it that feels like really fake. It's just hard to, you know, get a sense of the person. It's been interesting to navigate that, in the sense of like, trying to get people to know me. That's why I think videos have been better. You know, it's like more sustained and it can be more fun. There's been so many good parts of it too, like hearing the stories from people that just DM me and just share these really beautiful things with me, and then I'm like oh that's more direct, that's easier for me to understand than just numbers.

Even the songs about loss and hardship have a playfulness to them, is that important to you?

Humor, for me, is such an essential part of life, you know? I couldn't make anything that felt like just formal and serious, because I felt like that would just almost - you wouldn't feel right. So I feel like anything I make I feel all the sides and I want to have that represented in the music too. Otherwise, you know, what is it? It's not a representation of how I feel or my outlook on life and its just someone else's. This is, I guess, just my lens.