A-SIDES
part one
1. married to the ground
2. another day no.1
3. woke up alone
4. loved a girl
5. bye bye love no.3
part two
1. henry the devil
2. born in the middle
3. drinking
4. no hands no clothes
part three
1. tongues
2. sugar
3. sweetheart
4. golden you
part four
1. awake all night
2. another day no.2
3. lover
4. your ghost
5. seeds
B-SIDES
1. kings
2. sewing
3. stress tents
4. shy deer
5. interlude no.1
6. once the sun stops feeling new
7. snow bird
8. so tired (partial)
9. the bison king
10. sweet dreams
11. happy endings
12. puke pig
13. so funny i'll die
14. lady green
15. salty lips
16. my own pouring rain
17. interlude no.2
18. seeds no.2
19. her spell
20. instrumental no.9
21. oh man
22. ladder to the window *
23. sweet little girl *
24. instrumental no.3
25. instrumental no.4
26. instrumental no.2
27. tow the wind
28. one day you're happy
29. young girl
30. club my knees
31. lift the seas
32. no head no toes
33. bye bye love no.2
34. bye bye love no.4
* = written by Kevin Michael Mayfield
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Production Credits: "SEEDS" was written and recorded by Ryland Bouchard and Kevin Michael Mayfield between October 2007 and August 2008 on a 1971 Stephens Electronics 2416 console and an Otari MX80 2" 16 track at his home in Portland, Oregon. "SEEDS" was mixed by Ryland Bouchard in August of 2008 on a Stephens Electronics 2416 console and a 1968 3M M56 2" 16 track. CD mastering was done by Ryland Bouchard. Vinyl mastering by Prairie Cat Mastering. Records pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN. Illustrations, layout, and artwork completed by Daniel Gibson. Letterpressing by Keegan Meegan Press & Bindery in Portland, OR. Released by Swim Slowly Records in 2008.
Music Credits: Ryland Bouchard: songs, guitar, piano, synth, drums, vocals, accordion, arrangements, production. Kevin Michael Mayfield: guitar, drums, piano, harmonica, vocals, arrangements, production. Alan Lechusza: woodwind/string arrangements, clarinet, flute, oboe, english horn, sax. Evan Kuhlmann: contrabassoon. Aaron Shepherd: bass. Jay Arner: drums. William Haworth: drums, keyboard. Rebekah Bellingham: violin, viola, vocals. Lana Rebel: vocals, guitar. Cielle Taoffe: vocals, violin.
Ryland Bouchard, Seeds, 2008
"People demand a degree of continuity from bands. Gradual artistic evolution is encouraged over the course of a long career, but constant reinvention as an aesthetic mode is accepted only in a few canonized chameleons like David Bowie, and even then only after a period of introductory stability. So it's not surprising that instinctive changeling Ryland Bouchard - who crammed a David Byrne's worth of sincere musical metamorphosis into five years and four albums as the Robot Ate Me before abruptly retiring the name in 2007 - has confounded critics and fans alike...His most forthrightly personal record to date, explores the growth and decay of interpersonal relationships over SEEDS' four installments and a variety of folk forms, recalling Randy Newman, Jeff Mangum, Nick Drake, and, yes, even the Robot Ate Me. Even on intimate, bare songs like gorgeous album highlight "Bye Bye Love #3," the steady woodwinds that discordantly put the surprisingly short song to bed remind us that a songwriter as strong as Bouchard retains his distinctive and lovely compositional voice regardless of the tradition in which he is working." - PORTLAND MERCURY, CARY CLARKE
The Robot Ate Me, Good World, 2006
"There are some people that will most certainly hate this. They won't 'get' the music, they will hate the lack of any real specific story, they will feel cheated by the album's length (or lack of it). And, on the other hand, there are some people that will love this. I am one of them." -popmatters
"Good World is certainly an audio world unto its own." -allmusic
"The songs work in some masochistic way and begin to hook themselves into your soul." -boomkat
The Robot Ate Me, Carousel Waltz, 2005
"Ryland Bouchard certainly has a way of getting to the emotional truth: previously on On Vacation, he dealt with fear and hope, and now moves to love, power and death. By these universal themes, he unlocks something undeniably true and grippingly universal. His inquiries and observations are able to show keen insight into the unique experiences of every individual who lends him an attentive ear and a receptive heart." - Sarah Peters, Lost At Sea
"Quick and to the point, Carousel Waltz vies for your heart, showing you that as bad as life can get, there's still so much beauty to be found." - prefix
The Robot Ate Me, On Vacation, 2004
"One of the of the best pop albums I've heard in years. Period."- Mr. P, TinyMixTapes
"This is the sort of music that makes me believe in people, the kind of inspired rot which makes the world not seem so damn plastic. 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." - Adam Gnade, Fahrenheit
"A bizarre holocaust-haunted concept album, blending Christianity, Nazi propaganda and cloying Americana into a frightfully surreal mix" - Matt Fink, Skyscraper
The Robot Ate Me, They Ate Themselves, 2002
"Quite possibly the year's most arresting experimental pop record, They Ate Themselves is a dizzyingly vibrant trip through death and multi-layered dissonance. " - Matt Fink, Skyscraper
"They Ate Themselves, that's the clever title of the album, lives up to all of the hype and then progresses to blow even further mind out of my head...This album is honestly hard to explain as it is so truly original that it has to stand on its own. Please ignore all of the Kid A mumbo-jumbo, this album is much more genuine than anything Radiohead could ever try to pull." - Jake Brahm, TinyMixTapes
