Her independently released debut song Zen quickly won her fans. Now Eves the Behavior, aka Hannah Karydas, cements her arrival with new track TV, another serving of “disillusioned pop” with dreamy intriguing synths and drums, and a compelling video.
Karydas experiences synaesthesia, the rare neurological ability by which one sense stimulates another. In her case, she associates music with colours – she describes TV as a ‘bottle-green’ song. “TV is a visual song. Dropping off a cliff into the ocean at midnight, driving down Lost Highway, cinematic and always shifting.”
After supporting Courtney Barnett and Sky Ferreira on their national tours in 2014, Karydas is playing Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney Laneway festivals in January. Here she shares her musical inspirations, flaws and why she’d like to revisit to the early 20th century.
What is your earliest musical memory?
I remember hearing Neil Finn coming out of the car radio when I was really young, and contemplating the source of the music. Was there a little man with a guitar sitting inside the dashboard, serenading me? Does he spin around like a ballerina in a jewellery box? I was so perplexed.
What’s the piece of music most likely to get stuck in your head?
Tiga’s Sound of My Shoes.
What’s your favourite film clip?
Nick Cave and PJ Harvey singing Henry Lee.
Which song do you listen to most often?
Radiohead’s Let Down from OK Computer.
What motivates you?
Reading Alain de Botton. Writing lists.
What are you looking forward to?
Rearranging the furniture when I get back home to Sydney
Who do you admire most?
Joan Didion
Who do you envy most?
People who don’t cry easy
What’s your biggest flaw?
Crying too easily. Not being empathetic enough. Narcissism... That’s more than one.
What’s your biggest regret?
Not taking science in high school. I now find myself fascinated by it, with not enough knowledge stored in my head. This is being fixed.
What’s your greatest fear?
Leeches!
Who has had the most profound influence on you personally?
My best friend, Thomas. You know when you feel you have transcended your former self since meeting someone? That’s him.
What do you count as your break-out moment?
I think that is something that happens all the time! But, releasing my song TV has brought forth a wave of love from people who didn’t know I exist before. So perhaps that.
The act of creation is ….
Different for every person. And that exclusiveness is monumental, don’t you think?
What is the most important thing that you do on a daily basis?
I have to talk to my best friend.
If you could go back in time, where would you go?
I’d love to have tea with Alan Turing. So, say the first half of the 20th century. See the seeds planted for modern technology, the computer. And perhaps I’d fall into the women’s rights movement of that time.
Eves the Behaviour will play the 2015 Laneway festival in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney
