Ryland Bouchard has been played on NTS shows including Claire Rousay, with Woke Up Alone first played on 25 September 2023.

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…