RYKKA shares their metamorphic pop single, “Louder.” Louder is the second single of Rykka’s new album Para//e/s, a concept album and social media storyworld that follows Rykka and three other astronaut artists on a journey to Mars.
The song paints a portrait of their journey, as Rykka vulnerably sings about a time when they tried to silence undesirable parts of themself to overcome imposter syndrome. Rykka’s voice echoes with raw emotion as they reveal, “I got demons, keep ‘em safe, keep ‘em secret locked behind my face, I got white walls not a trace, not a trickle of the batshit crazy.”
As Rykka explores and becomes more self aware, they realise that to thrive they will need all of themself — all of the dark and scary, all of the weird and wonderful. Rykka sings, “If I stare into the mirror too long, all these white walls crash into the floor. The horizon comes out of the dark, and my demons, that’s my spark.”
On “Louder,” Rykka says, “When I wrote this song with Benji, it was a moment in my life when I was faced with a new role, which showed me a new side of my identity. At the time, I had a strict idea of who I wanted to be in this new role and what others expected of me, so I tried my best to fit into the mold, silencing things in me that I thought didn’t fit. When I came to see what I was doing, I had built fake walls around myself... It took courage and a lot of self-love to allow myself to be more authentic, and more and more everyday I’m striving to live truthfully”
Louder was written by Rykka and Benji Schmid at Benji’s attic studio in Winterthur, Switzerland. Rykka produced the vocals and the song was produced by Pablo Nouvelle in Zürich, Switzerland. Louder was mixed by Jeff Dawson and mastered by Elisa Pansaeng, both in Rykka’s hometown of Vancouver, Canada.
