Ryn Weaver gets honest on her debut: “‘The Fool’ is my way of flushing out how I feel”

In the August 2015 issue of DIY (out Friday 7th August) Ryn Weaver gets honest about debut album ‘The Fool’.

“The record is about me moving to California and being super irresponsible,” she tells us, opening up to the themes of ‘The Fool’, “having all sorts of lovers and doing whatever I wanted. Then, from there, I started getting more serious with someone and realised it was because it wasn’t an awful situation, I was being treated with the upmost respect. But, you know, you learn bad habits from the bad relationships in a sense. By the end of the record, I’m kinda questioning myself, maybe I was an equal part of that problem because maybe I’m just too young and afraid of commitment myself. Maybe that’s why I dated the assholes; because when you finally get given someone who’s so wonderful to you, you don’t know how to swallow that pill, but at the same time, I don’t think that’s bad. The album’s called ‘The Fool’, but it’s more about, ‘Are you a fool? Would you be a fool to settle for what you always thought you wanted? Or would you be a fool to leave and maybe not find that again, but maybe maintain freedom?’ It was kind of about me getting addicted to freedom, quite honestly, and realising I don’t need to be co-dependent.

“I think it’s really important to be honest,” she says, hitting on the lifeblood of ‘The Fool’. “With this record, I kinda wanted to write a story in a way, while still making it feel like a really sound album, and not sacrificing the quality of sound for that. I feel like I always want to be writing, for the most part, from my personal experiences. I wouldn’t say it’s confessional, but it’s kinda my way of flushing out how I feel.” That’s something optimised by the idea behind her first single. “Half the time I don’t even know how I feel because there’s so many things going on, so when I actually write it down, it clears things for me.”

Ryn Weaver’s debut album ‘The Fool’ will be released on 4th September via Mad Love/Virgin EMI.

Read the full interview in the August 2015 issue of DIY, out 7th August. Pre-order a copy below.