WHAT IT IS: “Ryn’s music sounds like butterflies in your brain,” Benny Blanco says, “like if you took dope beats, mixed them with Joni Mitchell and Kate Bush and then attached it all to a bungee cord.” In Ryn’s songs you can hear the euphoric pulse and summer breeze of Blanco, and the giddy rush and dust-devil synth swirls of Angelakos. Drums pound like fists against the door in her single, “OctaHate,” a slow jam swing turned earthquake. When you listen, bear in mind you’re hearing her first take in a studio, ever. Listen more closely and you can hear what sound like drops of water in a tub. “‘OctaHate’ equals hate times eight,” the alternative electro-pop songstress says. Her birthday is the 222nd day of the year. Two times two times two is eight. Her debut EP was released on 8/8. Starting to see a pattern here?
ALBUM: Promises EP; debut full-length, The Fool, due 6/16
RELEASE DATE: 8/8/14
SINGLE: “OctaHate”
TV: Letterman 1/15/15
LIVE: Confirmed for SXSW, Coachella, Bonnaroo and other major summer fests; U.S. headline tour slated for summer, tickets on sale starting 3/20
INTERNET: 6m+ Spotify streams on single
RADIO: Bubbling just under the chart at Top 40; adds this week include WIOQ, KDWB, WHQC, WNOH
PRESS: MTV Artist to Watch 2015; named Best of 2014/Artist to Watch in 2015 by Time, HuffPost, Fader, Spotify, BuzzFeed, Stereogum, Forbes, Blackbook, Yahoo Music, more
BOOKING: Rachel Adler & Jeffrey Azoff/CAA
PUBLISHING: Call Me Bambee/Backhair Publishing
MANAGEMENT: Troy Carter/Atom Factory; Eric Kellogg/Lola Grand

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