This is Rumbull Strip. I'm Erica Heilman.

I am recording.

Excellent.

You know, I was thinking...

I'm recording and I was thinking about usually when I am interviewing somebody I'm looking at them and usually I'm

you know responding with my face and so you printed out some photographs some press photographs

I did some happy and some sad

some happy and some kind of ambiguous expressions mysterious

murky murky murky

Mercurial is my is my blue steel

Mercurial is your resting face mrr

resting mercurial face. days we were young. That's Ryan Lott and you're listening to his band Sunlucks, a band that's pretty much impossible

to categorize or genre. The sound is massive, it's anthemic, but it's also strangely intimate.

The rhythms are incredibly complex and it's shot through with these bright little details of sound.

The project started in Ryan's brain in Cleveland where he was

composing music for dance performances and then it grew by two guitarist Raffique

Batia and drummer Ian Chang. They're all composers and producers, performers and

improvisers and I think it's fair to say that they're all wicked smart.

Refique and Ian are based in New York and Ryan is in LA, which is where he was when I interviewed him just two days before he went out on tour for their new album, Brighter Woons.

He was in a studio and I was in my underwear closet and we got into this really interesting conversation

about where music actually comes from and how he makes it or maybe where he finds it.

And the beauty of interviewing musicians is you can play their music,

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