{"id":11931,"date":"2012-10-26T13:55:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T13:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=11931"},"modified":"2017-03-01T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T13:44:57","slug":"new-noise-ryat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/10\/26\/new-noise-ryat\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW NOISE: RYAT"},"content":{"rendered":"

When RYAT released her first album, Avant Pop, she was very much aware of that she wanted to do an avantgarde pop record. Two years later she’s back on Brainfeeder with Totem, a deeply spiritual and equally virtuous record that seems to be the exact opposite. We sat down and talked to her about what happened.<\/p>\n

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\"RYAT<\/a><\/p>\n

Avant Pop, your first album, has been a very compact record, also considering its production process.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, we wrote and recorded that in almost three weeks maybe. That concept I’ve had before I did the reocrd – I knew that I wanted to write an avant pop record. I wanted to make fun of pop song and write more odd type songs, be more tongue-in cheek about it and more rough about the lyrical content. <\/p>\n

Now Totem is a totally different record…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, Totem was a record that I wasn’t sure what it was. I just had all these things I wanted to write about, it was more of a different formative record for me. I knew it would be a journey.<\/p>\n

And during that journey certain animals played an important role, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, a totem in the Indian culture consists of different animals that guided you through certain things in life and that gave you advice. And while I was writing the album a couple of animals came to me and it was always the exact advice that I needed. That was really weird, but beautiful at the same time.<\/p>\n