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Hey Sarah! Your debut solo EP has just arrived, how are you feeling?
It’s weird. Like, I haven’t really kind of sat down and took it all in really? It’s strange. I’m super excited.
Going back to the beginning, how did your Cryalot project come about?
Around 2018, I opened an Instagram account called Cryalot. Initially, I was going through a dark period of my life and I wanted an outlet, or some kind of space, to post stuff that’s not really Sarah Bonito. When it came to naming the account, I was crying a lot during that period, so I was like, ‘Fuck it, I’ll call it Cryalot’. I guess, like, looking back at it, it was my kind of attempt to kind of take control of those moments and owning those moments, and not letting those tears be just tears in the end.
So it started off with an Instagram account, and then when I was touring as KKB, I was touring with Jennifer Walton, who was a live member, and I was spending every day with her, and I got to really know her. That’s when I started thinking, ‘Oh, I really want to make music under Cryalot and I really want to make it with her’. It just kind of happened from there. After touring, we got into the studio together and started writing, and now we’re here!
When you first opened the Instagram account in 2018, was music always the end goal?
Yeah! I was like, I guess I want to do something creative, but when I opened it I wasn’t sure. Like, will it be music? Will it be visual arts? During that period, it was really hard to even create things, so I was moving very slow. When I opened it, it was like a glimmer of hope or something. So yeah, it took a long time to get here. I guess at the start I just wanted to like make something out of it. I think that was the initial thought.
How come you decided to do something solo as opposed to with KKB?
KKB is always gonna be music me, Gus [Lobban] and Jamie [Bulled] make, and then Cyralot is kind of more personal to me. I wouldn’t have been able to do it, like other artists, having different producers for different songs. It was really hard to write those songs as well. I really needed someone who I had a foundation with, and Jennifer has this solo music which has a slight darkness that I was really attracted to. It just felt right.
What was the first song that you created for the project?
I would say it was ‘Hell Is Here’, which is funny to me because, listening back, it’s the song that’s most close to the dark moments.
How was the process of taking these dark moments and making them into music?
It was hard at the start, but once I got into the rhythm, it got better and better. It was kind of weird. It was, like, very cathartic. Really hard, but cathartic. The more I went for it, the more I came out of the [dark] moments. It felt like a journey. I feel like totally like a different person compared to when I was writing ‘Hell Is Here’. I think it really helped me heal from it.
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