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During the Vancouver Brainfeeder Showcase last week, alongside Brainfeeder acts Samiyam , Mono/Poly and MAST (her best friend and “undiscovered genius” who toured and collaborated with her a couple years back), RYAT premiered the sounds we can expect to hear on her forthcoming LP, Totem ( Brainfeeder ) .

Since the release of her last record, Avant Gold , Christina McGeehan has stepped away from instrumentals, focusing more so on electronic experimentation. In regards to her upcoming release, she says-

“Totem is much more compositional and less poppy. It’s more conceptual and I look at it like a classical record in its themes. I wrote almost the entire music before any words were written at all. It was more about vibe and energy and sound. I later meditated on the compositions and each song’s meaning and lyrics slowly appeared in poem form. [Totem] has a completely different artistic process and conception.”
(via Adequacy )

Her music has often been said to vocally and sonically resemble Bjork ‘s, and Christina is flattered. But one Soundcloud viewer put it quite well: “This reminds me of Bjork minus all  of the annoying aspects.” Download the first single from Totem (out June 4th) below.

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