Biography
Under the Yot Club moniker, Ryan Kaiser crafts hazed-over bedroom pop that draws from chillwave's atmospheric lushness alongside the sharp edges of early-2000s indie rock. The project gained initial traction through the 2019 release "YKWIM?," then broadened its scope across the 2022 album Off the Grid and the 2023 EP Amateur Observer.
Kaiser began creating music in his youth and first posted tracks online near 2014 under the Amateur Observer name. While enrolled at college in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during 2019, he adopted the Yot Club title and issued his debut single "Jaded." Handling every instrument on his own, he captured and mixed the song in a bedroom setting that echoed the DIY approach of indie surf and chillwave acts, yet infused it with pop sensibilities reminiscent of Phoenix or the Strokes. He followed with the January 2019 EP Aquarium, the March single "Japan," and the May EP Bipolar. The Bipolar cut "YKWIM?" gained widespread traction through tens of millions of streams, drawing major-label interest. Amid this surge, Kaiser moved to Nashville and maintained a steady output of new material.
The funk-inflected Nature Machine EP surfaced in 2020, after which he delivered his first full-length, Off the Grid, in 2022; that album incorporated elements of R&B, chamber pop, and West Coast folk-rock breeziness. Throughout 2023, alongside the Amateur Observer EP, Kaiser teamed up on singles with Jordana and Spill Tab.
Kaiser began creating music in his youth and first posted tracks online near 2014 under the Amateur Observer name. While enrolled at college in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, during 2019, he adopted the Yot Club title and issued his debut single "Jaded." Handling every instrument on his own, he captured and mixed the song in a bedroom setting that echoed the DIY approach of indie surf and chillwave acts, yet infused it with pop sensibilities reminiscent of Phoenix or the Strokes. He followed with the January 2019 EP Aquarium, the March single "Japan," and the May EP Bipolar. The Bipolar cut "YKWIM?" gained widespread traction through tens of millions of streams, drawing major-label interest. Amid this surge, Kaiser moved to Nashville and maintained a steady output of new material.
The funk-inflected Nature Machine EP surfaced in 2020, after which he delivered his first full-length, Off the Grid, in 2022; that album incorporated elements of R&B, chamber pop, and West Coast folk-rock breeziness. Throughout 2023, alongside the Amateur Observer EP, Kaiser teamed up on singles with Jordana and Spill Tab.
Albums
Singles
