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Ryland Bouchard
12+ albums
folkexperimentalterese blaaklokketweeAvant-Garde
about
One of the most prolific and inventive songwriters of the last decade, Ryland Bouchard (previously known as the Kill Rock Stars/5RC recording artist The Robot Ate Me) has managed to defy convention consistently pushing the boundaries of recorded music. Labeled by Daytrotter.com as “One of the most creative and potentially scary minds of our generation” and by Spin as "purely artistic, baffling, and almost completely uncommercial". In 2002 as The Robot Ate Me, Ryland Bouchard released "They Ate Themselves" a quirky gem of indie pop Skyscraper described as "Quite possibly the year's most arresting experimental pop record, They Ate Themselves is a dizzyingly vibrant trip through death and multi-layered dissonance." Then came the strange and puzzling "On Vacation" in 2004 in which Adam Gnade declared "It's not even music outside the margins. Here the margins were never there, and if they were to encroach, The Robot Ate Me would probably up and croak. " Punk Planet followed suit describing the album as "A hypnotic two-disc record that will score your twisted nightmares and fanciful dreams." Splendid summarized "It is impossible to understand a Robot Ate Me album from a written description." The 2005 release of "Carousel Waltz" brought an unexpected set of bittersweet love songs. The album was rejected by fans of The Robot Ate Me's experimental work but was lauded by Babysue as a "strangely compelling and uplifting vision of how love affects a person. Soft and focused, these u
